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To: boatbums
Just to clarify...this syllogism you are using falls apart simply because Jesus is not ALL OF GOD (meaning that he is the second person of the triune Godhead). Using your logic it would be like saying:

Mary is the mother of Sam. Sam is a fireman. Therefore, Mary is the mother of firemen. Get it?

The title "mother of God" means that Mary is the mother of God the Son, the Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, because she conceived him in her womb and bore him. It has NEVER meant that Mary is the mother of God the Father and/or God the Holy Spirit.

In other words, you are arguing against an assertion that NO ONE HAS EVER MADE--namely, that Mary is the mother of the Trinity or the mother of one or both of the other Persons of the Trinity.

1,059 posted on 01/06/2016 2:13:14 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

If one hears mother of God how does one know it is limited to only Christ? Why would the term not apply to the Father and Holy Spirit?


1,060 posted on 01/06/2016 2:20:20 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Arthur McGowan

I’m not arguing against an assertion “nobody has made” but against the illogic of your syllogism.


1,078 posted on 01/06/2016 4:18:56 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Arthur McGowan; boatbums
The title "mother of God" means that Mary is the mother of God the Son, the Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, because she conceived him in her womb and bore him. It has NEVER meant that Mary is the mother of God the Father and/or God the Holy Spirit.

On the contrary, that is EXACTLY what *mother of God* SAYS.

You all can deny it and claim that it means something different than what it says, but then you are denying the plain basic reading of a simple statement.

If it actually MEANS something different, then whoever chose that term did a poor job and it needs to be reworded to more accurately say what it means.

Kind of like what the HOLY SPIRIT did when HE chose to use the term *mother of Jesus*.

1,081 posted on 01/06/2016 4:37:22 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
The title "mother of God" means that Mary is the mother of God the Son, the Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, because she conceived him in her womb and bore him.

God was not conceived in the flesh...God was planted there, by the Holy Spirit...

1,085 posted on 01/06/2016 5:21:13 PM PST by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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