Well you got the first two right D-Fender.....but you lost me entirely saying Mary’s the Mother of God... because how the catholic faith sees her as “mother” to Jesus...and how I see Mary as His mother are vastly different. You see her as ‘co-equal to Christ’....I will never do that...she is not nor never was and never will be........ it’s just a catholic thing...we know that.
BTW mushy headed thinking is perfectly acceptable to our Father...we all have mushy heads...no exceptions.
I guess based on your posts you just are lost entirely saying Mary is the Mother of God. That Mary is the mother of God is the fundamental statement of the theology of the Incarnate Word. it is no small thing. Problems with Mary are co-joined with problems with the Incarnate Word; they are impossible to separate without destroying the Incarnation.
The Incarnation is critical to Christianity. God became flesh, chose to be born, have a mother, and His mother was Mary. This is essential knowledge to the orthodox Christian view of Salvation History. Who Jesus is, that God became incarnate, had mother - just like us - who gave birth to Him, nursed Him, watched Him be tortured and killed, as He watched her watch Him. Like a mother and her son. Think on this.
If you cannot fully conceive of this, you cannot fully conceive of Our Saviour, not in the way of the true Christian Faith.
However, if you can conceive of it, and relate to it as a human being, tempted and tried as Our Saviour was, and conceive of your own mother and relate this, in the same manner, to Our Lord and His mother… then you can begin to more fully understand the true Christian faith, God’s plan for us, His Incarnation and His mother’s part in it.
And you will no longer, having left ignorance behind, denigrate or minimize His mother’s crucial part in His existence any more than you would your own mother in yours.
Then, perhaps, approach Mary with at least as much respect and honor as you would your own mother, while contemplating who Her Son was and what He, whom she bore in her womb, brought into this world.
Mary leads us to Christ.