AGREED.
It is only when you try splitting up Christ or fiddling with His humanity that you run into problems with Mary.
I disagree. MoG inherently connotes, infers, embellishes in outrageously blasphemous ways and degrees--and unnecessarily. "God Bearer" does not carry the same outrageous connotations.
It is fascinating that many Vatican associates can be hyper sensitive to CONNOTATIONS HEREON . . . EXCEPT IN THIS CASE RE MARY AND THE TERM "MOTHER OF GOD" . . . WHERE SUDDENLY the Vatican associates are suddenly blind and deaf about connotations. Most curious and most disturbing.
THAT kind of . . . double standard is more than a LOT disturbing to a LOT of Prottys.
Quix, I’m a Catholic, not a “Vatican associate.”
I don’t think very many protestants on these threads have had the experience of being a mother, physically. It is VERY clear to a human mother that she gives part of herself to the child she bears. It is also clear that the child is a completely separate being. We know from the first day that we know we are pregnant, that the day of our delivery (deliverance) approaches inexorably.
Every child brings either honor or dishonor to his/her mother. My son, by being who he is, has brought honor to me. His achievements reflect well on me and his father. But we do not claim his triumphs as our own.
See?
Who are the Catholics: The Orthodox or The Romanists, or the the Blended in Voodoo worshipers, or all?
“ . . . followers of the religion, which blends the traditional beliefs of West African slaves with Roman Catholicism.”
See:
Haiti earthquake: Voodoo high priest claims aid monopolised by Christians....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2442740/posts