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To: metmom
"*Mother of GOD* does not show up in Scripture."

I can play that game too, but I tire of the obtuse quickly.

The phrase "Mother of my Lord" (Luke 1:43) does. Accepting for the moment your Nestorian premise that there were two Jesus, which one was St. Elizabeth referring to, the human Jesus or the divine Jesus?

And for the sake of accuracy we are not discussing the English phrase "Mother of God", we are discussing the word Theotokos. Peace be with you

3,062 posted on 12/29/2012 10:43:36 AM PST by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law
And for the sake of accuracy we are not discussing the English phrase "Mother of God", we are discussing the word Theotokos.

Yes, we were. That's what I started out discussing.

If you've changed the discussion to something else, this is the first I've heard of it.

In Scripture, the Holy Spirit calls her *mother of Jesus*.

John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

John 2:3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”

Acts 1:14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Scripture is clear in calling her *mother of Jesus* not *mother of God*.

Not only is the RCC calling Holy Spirit a heretic for using that term, but also John and Luke.

You know what? I'm keeping pretty good company with that crowd.

The Catholic church can label us all *Nestorians* or *heretics* or whatever label they want to slap on someone who disagrees with THEM. It doesn't disagree with Scripture so I'll wear the label of *heretic* like a badge of honor.

It doesn't mean I'm wrong, all it does is show that I don't agree with the Catholic church. Big deal.

If it's good enough for the Holy Spirit, it's good enough for me.

The Catholic church's problem is that instead of correcting any erroneous teaching about who Jesus was, it went and relabeled Mary, making her into something she never was to begin with and it's done nothing to rectify the incorrect teaching about Jesus and everything to lead to incorrect teaching about Mary.

3,064 posted on 12/29/2012 11:03:14 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Natural Law; metmom
Accepting for the moment your Nestorian premise...

Yeah, Mom...

..defend against THIS!!

3,115 posted on 12/29/2012 3:46:12 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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