Thanks for clearing that up. I wasn’t deliberately being dense.
Scripture tells us in Luke 1 that it was God himself who desired that Mary be the mother of Jesus. He sent the angel Gabriel to tell Mary that she will bear a son, and that she is to call him Jesus. Gabriel further said that this holy child to be born will be called the Son of God.
Scripture also tells us in John 1 that the Word was God, that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and that John the Baptist testified that this Word that became flesh was Jesus, the Son of God.
I agree that it is impossible for anyone to be a parent of God, our Father who art in heaven.
But God lowered himself to become flesh in the person of Jesus, the Son of God. So from Scripture alone, it can be said that the woman who gave birth to God incarnate in the person of Jesus, the Son of God, can be called the mother of God while he was in the flesh.
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I think you answered your own question, but have not yet accepted that answer.
Since you know that the Logos exists eternally, Mary cannot be called “the mother of God.”
That is an ancient pagan term applied to Easter, and its use is evil at its root.
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