Should Mary be called Mother Of God?

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Evangelical Protestants often do raise this objection, Baptists among them.
 
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Jesus was God, the incarnate Word. Mary was his mother. So she is the mother of God.
In the early Church, some dissidents that denied Christ was God, opposed calling Mary the mother of God. The Church resisted this attempt, seeing that this denial aimed at denying Christ’s divinity. Calling Mary the mother of God has been more a statement of Christ’s divinity than anything else (though it does say something about Mary too.)
 
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Jesus is the 2nd person of the Holy Trinity; God the Son. Mary, as the mother of Jesus, is the mother of God.
 
Our Lord Jesus Christ is one Person with two natures, Divine and human, in the unity of His Divine Person.

Since She is the Mother of a Divine Person, She can rightly be called the Mother of God.
 
I’m not sure he’s going to respond. He’s received over 20 responses here, none of which he’s responded to, and started another thread regarding something in Isaiah that he thinks contradicts the Trinity. I think he’s here to try to poke holes in Catholicism.

Am I wrong, @El_Boy?
 
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Calling Mary the Mother of God is not referring to her as a goddess or as a divine being. Think about it this way. Jesus is God. Mary gave birth to Jesus. If Mary gave birth to Jesus, who is God, than she is the mother of God. 🙂
 
She is the mother of God, so yes. Others in this thread have already pointed out why she has that title.
 
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I don’t think many mainstream Protestant denominations would deny the validity of the term theotokos .
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Thile “theotokos” *includes" mother in its meaning, it emphasizes more “bearer” or “carrier” (but then, that’s a pretty critical thing that mother does . . . )
 
Fauken said:
I’m not sure he’s going to respond. He’s received over 20 responses here, none of which he’s responded to, and started another thread regarding something in Isaiah that he thinks contradicts the Trinity. I think he’s here to try to poke holes in Catholicism.

Am I wrong, @El_Boy?
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That other thread was closed earlier today, apparently at around midday PST.
 
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I don’t think many mainstream Protestant denominations would deny the validity of the term theotokos . They wouldn’t commonly use it (or its translation as “Mother of God”) as a title
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It kind of depends. When I was a Protestant, calling Mary Mother of God was an occasional topic of debate, and the number of people rejecting it because they ultimately held to Nestorianism was staggering. Personally, I do question if the cause was less careful analysis of doctrine and deciding “Nestorius was right!” and more having very little doctrinal understanding and then falling into Nestorianism when they tried to justify not calling Mary Mother of God.
 
For me, what convinced me when I was Reformed, was the fact that Mary conceived and gave birth to the Person of God the Son in human nature. Mothers aren’t mothers of natures, they mother persons. Since there is one Person and two natures, Mary bore the Person of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, therefore Mary is the Mother of God, the Theotokos (God-Bearer).

God Bless
 
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