Didn’t Mary bear the God-man? Or don’t you believe Jesus Christ is a divine person? Mothers conceive and bear persons - not natures. In the mystery of the Incarnation, Most Blessed Mary conceived our Lord by the power of the Holy Spirit, thereby providing the divine Person a human nature. She conceived and bore the divine Word who became flesh by his mother.
And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon , and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.”
Luke 1, 35
“And how does this happen to me that the mother of my Lord (adonai=Lord God; mater ha kyrios= Mother of God) should come to me?”
Luke 1, 43
They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child (Lord God) with his mother. They prostrated themselves and did him homage.
Matthew 2, 10-11
The invocation of Mary as Star of the Sea is a form of imagery which has its roots in the Old Testament in the figures of the Jewish heroines, notably Esther.
Mary is our Queen Mother (
Gebirah) by virtue of her divine maternity. Her divine Son inherited the throne of his father (ancestor) David.
“Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Luke 1, 31-33
The prophet Jeremiah uses the Hebrew word* meleketh* when referring to the Egyptian goddess. He uses
gebirah when mentioning the queen mother of a Davidic king. Mary is our Queen Mother (
Gebirah) of the eternal kingdom of heaven.
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Athiests say the same thing you do about our Lord. They assert that our belief in the divinity of Christ springs from an assimilation of pagan myths. By the way, the rite of baptism with water was practiced in the ancient pagan mystery religions. It’s a matter of fulfillment. And we must read the New Testament in light of the Old.
Pax Christu :harp: