Why won't Protestants call Mary "Mother of God"

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herry:
Neostorian?..Downgrading Jesus?

All I am saying is that God existed before Mary. To call Mary the mother of God is to say that Mary existed before God. Jesus was indeed fully God and fully human. But He got that humanity from Mary, He got His divinity from God. Does that make more sense?
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Yes the way you explain your view this way makes more sense.
However I disagree that to say Mary is the Mother of God means that she is A.) Greater than God and as you put here, does not mean B.) She existed before God.
A human mother of a human being exists before the child.
But a human mother of a divine being does not exist before that child in His divinity.
Since God simply IS, nothing can exist before God or even after God.
So far I’m sure you’d agree with that.
Look at it this way. If you say:
Mary is NOT the Mother of God.
But Jesus is God.
Then Mary is what?
You might say that Mary is simply the mother of Jesus’ humanity.
Yes I would agree with that. But you not seperate Jesus’ humanity from His divinity. To do so would add a 4th person to the trinity. Jesus is one person with **two **natures, divine and human.
Since Jesus IS God AND Human,
Mary then becomes,
The Mother of God.
What you are trying to do is seperate Jesus two natures, but because of the hypostatic union, this can not be done. They are in indissoluble.
I get the funny feeling that you would also have a problem with saying that God died on the cross.
 
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herry:
All I am saying is that God existed before Mary.
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And no one in this thread has disagreed with that proposition.
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herry:
To call Mary the mother of God is to say that Mary existed before God.
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No, it isn’t to say that. That is a false statement, a false summation. It is a straw man of the first order. To say, “Catholics say Mary is the Mother of God. By this Catholics mean Mary existed before God.” is say a lie because that is not what the Catholic Church means.

To say Mary is the Mother of God is to say Jesus Christ is God. The logic is irrefutable:
  1. Mary is Jesus Christ’s mother.
  2. Jesus Christ is God.
  3. Mary is God’s mother.
– Mark L. Chance.
 
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