[Old Yeller]

Elevating Mary to a position higher than God is giving an attribute to Mary AND God that doesn’t exist, and therefore creates an idol. God is self-existent. He had no beginning.

[metmom]

I'll stick with agreeing with the Holy Spirit in what He inspired in Scripture: *Mary, the mother of Jesus*.

That way, I KNOW I can't be wrong.

The Holy Spirit is clear in Scripture in calling Mary *the 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.

[Arthur McGowan]

The title “Mother of God” does not mean that Mary pre-existed God.

Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is God, the Second Person of the Trinity.

Therefore, Mary is the mother of God, the Second Person of the Trinity.

That is what the title “Mother of God” means, and has always meant. The title has never meant, “Mary existed before God.”