Good morning!
I was out celebrating my grandson’s first birthday last night.
I did read your comments and metmom’s.
The comment that struck me was metmom’s statement that Mary did not conceive and give birth to the Second person of the Trinity.
The infancy narratives tell us that Mary will conceive and give birth to a son who:
will save his people from sin;
they will call “Immanuel” (which means “God with us”);
will be called the Son of the Most High; and
will be called the Son of God.
These are all attributes of the Second person of the Trinity.
So how can it be that Mary did not conceive and give birth to the Second person of the Trinity?
Is it because the two natures of Jesus, true God and true man, act independently of each other? That while Mary conceived and gave birth to the human nature of Jesus, the divine nature was outside of that process?
Is it because the divine nature of Jesus did not join the human nature until some point after His birth? Maybe when “the anointed one” was consecrated to the Lord at the presentation?
Are there any teachings you can point me to that expand on the tenet that Mary is not the mother of God?
Or is it simply because the Holy Spirit did not inspire the writers to call Mary the mother of God, and our feeble attempts to try to understand why are like trying to empty the ocean into a hole in the sand?