MOST FOLKS I KNOW
construe
GOD to = GOD ALMIGHTY
or . . . as a collective term for The Trinity.
RC’s get slippery and absurd with the term to justify calling Mary the Mother of GOD.
OF COURSE JESUS IS GOD.
THAT’S NEVER AN ISSUE.
Casting Mary as the MOTHER OF GOD
is essentially, in context, false advertising. It is deceptive, disingenuous, false,
and carries all manner of nuances that are UNBIBLICAL and worse.
I can’t imagine ever feeling comfortable with the term. It sets my spirit on edge as a manipulation, a verbal slight of hand, a seductive trick.
Dreadful.
MOST FOLKS I KNOW
construe
GOD to = GOD ALMIGHTY
or . . . as a collective term for The Trinity.
RC’s get slippery and absurd with the term to justify calling Mary the Mother of GOD.
OF COURSE JESUS IS GOD.
THAT’S NEVER AN ISSUE.
Casting Mary as the MOTHER OF GOD
is essentially, in context, false advertising. It is deceptive, disingenuous, false,
and carries all manner of nuances that are UNBIBLICAL and worse.
I can’t imagine ever feeling comfortable with the term. It sets my spirit on edge as a manipulation, a verbal slight of hand, a seductive trick.
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Exactly.....
It certainly appears that the Catholic church never means what it says.
We’ve posted time and again things that the Catholic church has stated from its own website and in virtually every case, we’ve been told that the clear, plain meaning of what was printed is not what the Catholic church *really* teaches, or what it *really* means.
I’ve never seen such duplicity in my entire life.
The Trinity is hard. But it was clearly "God the Son of God" whom Mary conceived. I find it less outrageous if I think of Philippians and the humility of God and His willingness to "bear any burden" to sneak into the world.
In one of our ancient hymns, the Te Deum, we say
Tu, ad liberandum suscepturus hominem, non horuisti Virginis uterum.This is addressed to "Tu Rex gloriae, Christe" -- You, the king of glory, O Christ"You, when you resolved to free man, did not abhor the Virgin's womb.
Certainly the Father was not conceived in the Virgin's womb. And the Holy Spirit made it happen, so He wasn't conceived -- it was by His power that the conceiving happened.
On the other hand the Son is God.
My head is exploding.
or . . . as a collective term for The Trinity.
MD, this must have been where you got that from me at the referent post.
I think here, I was groping to cover all the possible reasonable bases.