Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: ealgeone
Your evidence is not convincing.

First of all, you don't know "why" a term like "Theotokos" does not appear in the NT, any more than you know "why" a term like "Sola Scriptura" or "Sola Fide" does not appear.

"Other children of Mary" and "sons of Mary" --- these terms are absent as well.

Bottom line, nothing can be dispositively proven, one way or the other, merely by the lack of a later term in an earlier text.

"Mother of God" means nothing more than "Mother of Jesus who is God." It has no demigoddess implications whatsoever

Any reasonable person would know this, and wouldn't have to have it explained to them over and over again, if they would be so good as to look up the actual historic context --- the Council of Ephesus.

Ephesus' definition of "Mother of God" ("Theotokos") was essentially Christological: it clarified and confirmed that Jesus Christ is One Divine Person, not two. And it was accepted with gratitude by the entire Christian Church: the churches now known as Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, Syriac, Eritrean, etc.

It was only considered controversial by the Nestorians, because they taught, erroneously, that Jesus is two separate Persons, one Divine and one Human.

That's why the Nestorians, alone, could not agree that Mary is the Mother of God. They did not believe that Jesus, all through His existence, and even in his mother's womb, was God.

You could look it up. That's not too much to ask.

48 posted on 07/03/2017 8:05:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.- Yogi Berra)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies ]


To: Mrs. Don-o
"Mother of God" means nothing more than "Mother of Jesus who is God."

+1

50 posted on 07/03/2017 8:12:11 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson