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To: Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; kosta50; Blogger; Kolokotronis; bornacatholic; jo kus; FormerLib
baby was fully God

Is Mary the mother of that fully God baby?

4,435 posted on 01/08/2007 10:17:17 AM PST by annalex
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To: annalex

Fully answered earlier in the thread.


4,437 posted on 01/08/2007 10:22:05 AM PST by Blogger (In nullo gloriandum quando nostrum nihil sit- Cyprian)
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To: annalex
Is Mary the mother of that fully God baby?

She's not the mother of God.

4,452 posted on 01/08/2007 11:46:25 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Acts 17:11 also known as sola scriptura.)
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To: annalex; blue-duncan; kosta50; Blogger; Kolokotronis; bornacatholic; jo kus; FormerLib; ...
Is Mary the mother of that fully God baby?

Well sure. I said earlier that I personally did not have a problem with "Theotokos" (especially as opposed to "Christotokos") because I think I have an understanding of how it is being used by the people who are using it. In witnessing, I would not choose to first use the term "mother of God" UNLESS I was also led to go into a whole long explanation of what that meant. That could very well happen someday. In addition, our respective explanations would certainly be different, including the mechanics. We would also disagree on what the title says about Mary. :) However, on the simple point of whether Mary gave birth to the God-man, thereby she was His mother, and if that's what Theotokos means, then "yes".

Anyway, in the same breath I agree with the criticisms of the other Protestants here, in that such a term could very well lead to a wrong impression, especially in witnessing. It really would take a full explanation. But here, in this conversation, among you all, it doesn't bother me, (and of course many of the points have been discussed on this thread). Nobody here thinks that our Lord Jesus took on His divine nature after physical birth.

5,645 posted on 01/13/2007 2:50:24 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: DungeonMaster
I should have pinged you to 5,645. I agree with what I think is behind how you responded to 4,435.
5,646 posted on 01/13/2007 2:59:44 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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