I don’t get why there is all this HARD work and explanations of how to get around saying that Mary is the Mother of God, but not all persons of God when scripture makes that a moot exercise by the title mother of Jesus. Why go to such hard work to explain what a term does not mean when you have a perfectly good term to use?? And one that the Holy Spirit uses.
And it begs the simple question - if it is so hard to explain what you mean and what you don’t mean by a descriptive phrase, then why NOT use the simple one that everyone knows what you mean? What is the reason, what is the spirit behind all of this?
RC does that in other areas, not just the title they plop on Mary when the title mother of Jesus works. Why make life more complicated? This tells me many things.
Good post and so very true.
The religion known as Roman Catholicism today is not Christianity. It is of a different gospel, inveigled with such heresies to Christianity as making Mary much more than an Earthly Mother blessed above all women. Catholicism seeks to make a business to empower their organization, their institution. The business is salvation by their definitions, so the adherents are ever striving to obtain, and the catholic mischaracterizations of Mary the Mother of Jesus as somehow the mother of god serves the confusion the institution needs in order to promote the Mariology so rife in that religion. But it is not Christianity.