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I guess its proper to enumerate a summation of points here.

1. Jesus is unambiguously God.
2. Mary is the Mother of Jesus.
3. Mary is the Mother of God.

(IS 9:6-7, Jn 1:1, Jn 1:14, Lk 1:43, Lk 1:32, I have plenty more)
To deny the third point is to deny a reality of the first point. Thus I’d quote (1 John 2:22)

The Title Mother of God does not imply diminished Godhead. It does imply the truth that Jesus is God. The truth is that Mary bore the Second Person of the Trinity in her womb. She shared Her humanity with Him, and gave birth to Him. She also raised Him.

That Makes her the Mother of God. The Humanity and Divinity must be communicable realities in one person that way. Its not ambiguous, it is not heretical, it is wholly Orthodox (I’ll give a nod to the Eastern Churches for whom we can thank for the struggles to retain Christianity).


678 posted on 01/05/2016 9:58:02 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Bayard
The Title Mother of God does not imply diminished Godhead. It does imply the truth that Jesus is God. The truth is that Mary bore the Second Person of the Trinity in her womb. She shared Her humanity with Him, and gave birth to Him. She also raised Him.

Which makes her the mother of Jesus. And nothing more.

Jesus IS God the Son. God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are all God. Did Mary bear them all? For if Christ is God, the Father is God and the Holy Spirit is God, and to claim Mary is the "Mother of God," failing to include ALL of the Godhead would seem to me to be wrong.

Hoss

680 posted on 01/05/2016 10:05:38 AM PST by HossB86 (Christ, and Him alone.)
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To: Bayard
The Title Mother of God does not imply diminished Godhead. It does imply the truth that Jesus is God.

It implies no such thing as the4 name of Jesus isn't even mentioned.

It does imply diminished deity and a deification of Mary.

739 posted on 01/05/2016 1:21:17 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Bayard
The Title Mother of God does not imply diminished Godhead.

It DOES 'imply' a vast numbers of powers that Mary id supposedly capable of exercising.

NONE of which are found in Scripture.

828 posted on 01/05/2016 4:54:39 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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