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To: blue-duncan
To be accurate, she was the bearer of the Logos, the Word, that became flesh, not God.

Would you say that God is one? Or do you think there are there three separate beings, Father, Son and Spirit? What One Person does, the rest are also present and doing. Jesus Himself says that when He says He can only do what the Father is doing. Thus, Mary can be properly called "Theotokos" because she bore the ENTIRE GODHEAD. The Logos is not "part" of God. He is FULLY God without any lacking or missing of part of the Godhead. Thus, the Word is FULLY God - and Mary bore God.

I agree with your second paragraph.

Regards

2,949 posted on 12/24/2006 1:04:22 PM PST by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)
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To: jo kus

"Thus, Mary can be properly called "Theotokos" because she bore the ENTIRE GODHEAD"

No, the scripture is clear that the Father sent the Son. The Father and the Holy Spirit did not become flesh. What you are proposing is a form of modalism, somewhat like the "Jesus Only" pentecostals.

1Jo 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.


2,952 posted on 12/24/2006 1:50:28 PM PST by blue-duncan
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