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To: Blogger
Denying that Mary is the mother of God entails one of three heresies: either (1) the child of whom she was the mother was not divine or (2) the thing that the birthed was not a child but a mere [non-divine] nature, or (3) the child Jesus was not born and had no mother. All three are heretical. The first is either the heresy of Arianism or Nestorianism. The second heresy is Nestorianism. And the third heresy is Docetism.

-A8

1,884 posted on 12/18/2006 10:20:17 AM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8

You are simply incorrect.
1) The child was Divine; but his divinity was eternally pre-existant before Mary was.
2)He was a person.
3)As a man, he had a mother. As God, he could have no mother because a mother would pre-suppose a beginning.

The Marian heresy here is in elevating Mary to the position of divinity since something can not be the mother of something else that does not share its nature in at least the part one is referencing. I.E., A German Shepherd Mix has to have one parent that is of German Shepherd origin. Since Jesus is not a MIX, but is 100% Man and 100% God, and since Mary has no divinity within her, she can not have contributed to the Divinity of Jesus. She contributed to His biological humanity, which is miraculuously unified through the power of the Holy Spirit with His divinity.

Jesus was/is God. But not because of Mary.


1,886 posted on 12/18/2006 10:37:21 AM PST by Blogger
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