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To: helloandgoodbye; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...

The whole problem with calling Mary *the Mother of God* is that it erroneously gives the impression that she is the mother of God, period, putting her above God.

The logic with the false premise that Jesus is God, Mary is Jesus’ mother, therefore Mary is God’s mother, ignores the fact that God is not Jesus alone.

Based on Catholic teaching that the Trinity comprises the Godhead, saying that Mary was the mother of God, would also include that Mary is the mother of God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit. Since there is no record of either the Father or the Holy Spirit having a mother, it is inaccurate and imprecise to call Mary the mother of God implying that she is the mother of all of them.

She is the mother of the Messiah, Christ. She bore the second person of the Trinity, not the entire Trinity itself as calling her the mother of God implies, and indeed actually states.


510 posted on 06/02/2011 10:50:43 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Now now.

There ya go agin trying to be rational and reasonable about the Vatican Cult.

Wouldn’t you have to do penance for that if you were still in it?

If they ever were to admit the truth of what you wrote, they’d have to demote Ishtar-Mary.

Given that Ishtar-Mary was designed to manipulate God with her ‘Motherly ways,’ THAT would NEVER do!


511 posted on 06/02/2011 10:58:13 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: metmom

Yep...The Great “I am that I am” has no mother.

Remarkable they continue to believe God has a mother. Especially when they claim to be the sole interpreters of the scriptures. Since they majorly messed up on who God is, because if they knew who God is they could never say He had a mother, then nothing else they claim can be trusted.


515 posted on 06/02/2011 12:03:45 PM PDT by caww
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To: metmom

“”Based on Catholic teaching that the Trinity comprises the Godhead, saying that Mary was the mother of God, would also include that Mary is the mother of God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit””

Dear Sister, you claim you understood what the Church teaching was when you were in the Catholic Church,but obviously there are many basic teachings you did not understand.

Here is something from Lumen Gentium to help you
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

“”The Virgin Mary, who at the message of the angel received the Word of God in her heart and in her body and gave Life to the world, is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and Mother of the Redeemer. Redeemed by reason of the merits of her Son and united to Him by a close and indissoluble tie, she is endowed with the high office and dignity of being the Mother of the Son of God, by which account she is also the beloved daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit.””

I hope your health is doing better these days,I have prayed for you


518 posted on 06/02/2011 12:20:23 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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