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To: Mom MD; Salvation
How so? Christ existed as God long before the world or Mary were created. There is no way she could be mother of his divine side. She is as human and you and I are, she was not sinless and needed a savior the same as you and I.

I am speaking carefully, slowly, in small words. Most of all I am speaking truth.

Point being, my understanding is that when they were talking about Mary as "Theotokos" (mother of God) they weren't so much talking about Mary, as asserting something about Christ, the incarnation, and the the divine and human natures of Christ.

163 posted on 06/28/2015 2:04:06 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Lee N. Field

Do you happen to know when the Spirit enters the soul of the body? ... Neither do I.


164 posted on 06/28/2015 2:14:21 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Lee N. Field; Mom MD
Point being, my understanding is that when they were talking about Mary as "Theotokos" (mother of God) they weren't so much talking about Mary, as asserting something about Christ, the incarnation, and the the divine and human natures of Christ.

Except that renaming Mary as *mother of God* does not even reference Christ anymore. It makes it all about Mary and removes any mention of Jesus.

If they were interested in making it about it Jesus, they'd have kept mention of Him and used the title the HOLY SPIRIT gave her in Scripture.

168 posted on 06/28/2015 2:24:19 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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