Mary Mother Of God The Son

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Hey, there are three persons in the trinity, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is God. The Holy Spirit is God. And the Son is God. They all have the same hypostasis. They are three distinct persons in one God. The Son of God, the 2nd person of the trinity also has two natures, one is divine, and the other is human.

Now The Church gives Mary the title of Theotokos, or, Mother of God which might lead many people into this line of reasoning.
  1. Jesus Christ is God
  2. The Holy Spirit is God
  3. The Father is God
  4. Mary is the mother of God
  1. Therefore Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the Mother of the Holy Spirit, and the Mother of the Father.
But this argument is unsound because The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, though each fully God, are also distinct persons from one another. As seen in the following diagram:

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But then should not the title given to Mary be “Mother of God the Son” instead of “Mother of God” as some protestants have claimed. Notice here that this line of reasoning :
  1. Mary is Mother of God the Son
  2. God the Son is God
  3. The Holy Spirit is God
  4. The Father is God
  1. Therefore Mary is the Mother of the Holy Spirit And Father
**Also won’t work ** for the same reason as in the 1st argument because God the Son is a distinct person from God the Father, and God The Holy Spirit. Now this is also the case in the first argument but is more apparent by the second title. Given this, Calling her Theotokos(non literally translated Mother of God) is still correct, and the Catholic church agrees that Mary is just the Mother of God The Son and Not the Holy Spirit or The Father. So to avoid confusion, why doesn’t the Church just say that Mary is The Mother of God the Son(although both are legitamate) ?

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Mary is not the difficulty here, it is
  1. The difficult concept of grasping the dynamics of the Trinity. Even Father Corapi in his talks readily admits, he doesn’t fully understand the mystery of the Trinity.
  2. The protestants desire, since the time of Luther, to redefine and edit the truth to fit their concepts. Yes, we can change Her title, but then we would be protestant, as we would have limited Her full place in God’s Way, Truth. Life - Kingdom.
Mary is the Immaculate Conception. Her spouse is the Holy Spirit. She is the Holy Mother of Jesus, Son and God. And when you see both of those words together, it takes a leap of faith, NOT intellect to step out and embrace the concept of the Trinity.

However, by changing her title, we are doing a grave injustice, as we are limiting Her due to our own limitations. Mary, I cannot, at this moment in time, grasp fully how God made you His bride, the Mother of His Son, as well as the Mother of God, so therefore I will change the definition to a lower concept that I do understand. No hard feelings, but since I don’t get it, you can’t be it. My intellect must be able to grasp completely everything about God, God cannot have truly wanted me to “walk by faith and not by light”.
 
The term Theotokos actually means “God-bearer” not “Mother of God” so it is entirely correct to call Mary the Theotokos because she did in fact carry or bear God Himself in the person of Jesus Christ. In addition, it is more than appropriate to call Mary the Mother of God because Jesus Christ is in fact God, and Mary is His Mother. In order to protect the divinity of Jesus the Church, guided by the Holy Ghost, has found it appropriate to call Mary, Mother of God. Pray on it and be guided by the Holy Ghost!
 
Mary gave birth to a person, that person being Jesus who is God. People can not give birth to a nature, only a person.

So, it’s quite alright that she is referred to as Mother of God. She is not mother of God the Father who is not born.

Why protestants make a fuss over this, is unclear to me.
 
I believe Protestants make a “fuss” over this because they believe it should be “mother of God”, not “Mother of God”. That is why, in my opinion, they are quite disturbed. Writing “mother” with a capital letter means would mean that she is a divinity, or that she bears the title of a divinity, because only God has words like “His”, “Him”, “Father”, “Son”, etc. because by writing it with capital letter, we make the difference between “him” (human) and “Him” (God). By writing “mother” with a capital letter, it seems like you are giving her a title she does not have. If you are writing “Mother” with capital letter you could just as well write “She” instead of “she”, “Her” instead of “her”, etc. when you are referring to her (or Her :D). This is not the only reason, but this is one of the many.
 
Cristian_B said:
I believe Protestants make a “fuss” over this because they believe it should be “mother of God”, not “Mother of God”. That is why, in my opinion, they are quite disturbed. Writing “mother” with a capital letter means would mean that she is a divinity, or that she bears the title of a divinity, because only God has words like “His”, “Him”, “Father”, “Son”, etc. because by writing it with capital letter, we make the difference between “him” (human) and “Him” (God). By writing “mother” with a capital letter, it seems like you are giving her a title she does not have. If you are writing “Mother” with capital letter you could just as well write “She” instead of “she”, “Her” instead of “her”, etc. when you are referring to her (or Her :D). This is not the only reason, but this is one of the many.
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Mary deserves her capital letter, my good friend. 😃
 
lil_flower_luv said:
Mary deserves her capital letter, my good friend. 😃
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The capital letter, when it’s used in common names (his, her, him, father, son, etc.) is used to note that that word (that word could be his, her, him, father, son, etc.) is referring to a divinity, which in most cases is God. She might deserve a title, but not the title of God. She cannot and she mustn’t bear a title of a divinity. She may be “special” but not that “special” to the point of being a divinity.
 
Cristian_B said:
The capital letter, when it’s used in common names (his, her, him, father, son, etc.) is used to note that that word (that word could be his, her, him, father, son, etc.) is referring to a divinity, which in most cases is God. She might deserve a title, but not the title of God. She cannot and she mustn’t bear a title of a divinity. She may be “special” but not that “special” to the point of being a divinity.
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Where does it say you are divine when you bear that kind of title? Catholics do not place her as an equal to God. You know that! We place her above humans. We know her as our Mediatrix with Jesus, proclaim her Immaculate Conception and Assumption into Heaven, body and soul. But we do not call her divine.
 
“Mother of God” is a title of respect and awe. And Mary is worthy of it. 🙂
 
lil_flower_luv said:
Where does it say you are divine when you bear that kind of title? Catholics do not place her as an equal to God. You know that! We place her above humans. We know her as our Mediatrix with Jesus, proclaim her Immaculate Conception and Assumption into Heaven, body and soul. But we do not call her divine.
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Grammar says so. When you are writing a common name with a capital letter you are referring to a divinity. That is how they thought me.
 
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