>> “The title Theotokos or “Mother of God” acknowledges that Mary gave birth to a PERSON, not a nature.” <<
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There’s a big problem for that particular blasphemy:
That “Person” was already in existence millenia before Mary was born, by his own testimony:
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
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so you agree with Joseph Smith that the Church was apostate in 431ad?
What do you think “divine” means? That nature has no beginning or end. But the WORD became Flesh and was born into the world. He is still ONE person, but instead of one nature, He added one at the Incarnation. Still ONE person, but two natures.
So Jesus was not a person? And how does saying He is the 2nd Person of the Holy Trinity (which of course is eternal) mean one does not believe He is God. The Incarnate Word, The Logos, The Emmanual, The Messiah? That God took flesh and cast His tent amongst us?
This is not unique to Catholic teaching all orthodox Christians teach this. Christ is God in the Flesh. He is the 2nd person of the Holy Trinity.
Actually, the Second Person of the Trinity is eternal.
The person, both human and divine, that is Jesus did not exist until His conception, when the divine united with the human in the womb of Mary.
Before then, there was no Jesus.
“And how has it happened, that the mother of my Lord, should come to me?”
Elizabeth knew.