Posted on 01/09/2012 7:43:03 PM PST by Colofornian
Do Mormons believe that God has a wife? Which Mormon prophet taught that if we have a Father in heaven we also have a Mother in heaven? From our series entitled, "Are Mormons Christians?":
No, those that say Mary is the Mother of God, rather than the mother of Jesus.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/22/fertility-goddess-asherah-was-gods-wife-edited-out-of-the-bible/
so Jesus isn’t God?
Are you a Jehovah Witness?
I am most assuredly not a JW. Jesus is God in the flesh, the Word dwelt among us. He is the Lamb of God, the one sinless human whose sacrifice purchased our redemption, having been slain from the foundation of the earth...
Mary did not give birth to God; she gave birth to his Son, Jesus Christ, God in the Flesh.
Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Trinity- like ice, water and vapor being 3 forms of the same thing.
so are you saying Jesus the man is a different person than Jesus the Son of God?
are there two Jesus’s or one?
Interesting how these anti-Mormon posts keep popping up - it wouldn’t have anything to do with Mitt, would it? I’m all for Mormon bashing because I do not believe Mormonism is biblical; but since this is a political forum I have to ask: don’t we support everyone’s freedom of religion and worship? Are we voting based on someone’s religious beliefs? I sure hope not. In fact, by marginalizing Mitt’s faith, you almost give a reason to support him: he of all people will be sure to protect the freedom to worship as one chooses, since he is a religious minority.
“Mary did not give birth to God; she gave birth to his Son, Jesus Christ, God in the Flesh”
this statement says two contradictory things:
1. Mary did not give birth to God
2. Mary gave birth to God in the flesh.
seems like someone may benefit from reading the Council of Ephesus 431ad.
Jesus, the man, born of Mary the virgin is the Son of God. He is the fully human incarnation of God, the “Son of God”.
He was born to die for our sins. His sacrifice as the sinless Lamb of God, fulfilled the Law and established a new Covenant. Thereafter ( his sacrifice)- those that believe on Him are cleansed by His blood.
There has only ever been one Jesus, who is seated at the right hand of the Father.
Do I get to ask you test questions? Are you a Maronite?, Immaculate Conception and all that. What chapter and verse do you base that on?
I say Mary is the Mother of God every time I pray the Hail Mary, when I say “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.”
And since the holy Virgin brought forth corporally God made one with flesh according to nature, for this reason we also call her Mother of God, not as if the nature of the Word had the beginning of its existence from the flesh.
For In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God, and he is the Maker of the ages, coeternal with the Father, and Creator of all; but, as we have already said, since he united to himself hypostatically human nature from her womb, also he subjected himself to birth as man, not as needing necessarily in his own nature birth in time and in these last times of the world, but in order that he might bless the beginning of our existence, and that that which sent the earthly bodies of our whole race to death, might lose its power for the future by his being born of a woman in the flesh. And this: In sorrow you shall bring forth children, being removed through him, he showed the truth of that spoken by the prophet, Strong death swallowed them up, and again God has wiped away every tear from off all faces. For this cause also we say that he attended, having been called, and also blessed, the marriage in Cana of Galilee, with his holy Apostles in accordance with the economy. We have been taught to hold these things by the holy Apostles and Evangelists, and all the God-inspired Scriptures, and in the true confessions of the blessed Fathers.
Canon 1 If anyone will not confess that the Emmanuel is very God, and that therefore the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (Θεοτόκος), inasmuch as in the flesh she bore the Word of God made flesh [as it is written, The Word was made flesh] let him be anathema. Nestorius: If anyone says that the Emmanuel is true God, and not rather God with us, that is, that he has united himself to a like nature with ours, which he assumed from the Virgin Mary, and dwelt in it; and if anyone calls Mary the mother of God the Word, and not rather mother of him who is Emmanuel; and if he maintains that God the Word has changed himself into the flesh, which he only assumed in order to make his Godhead visible, and to be found in form as a man, let him be anathema.
Excerpt from the infallible decree of the Council of Ephesus.
A Nestorian only marginally better than a Mormon theologically speaking.
there are present day Nestorians that don’t even realize it.
the claim was made that Mary did not give birth to God, but she did give birth to God in the flesh.
Mrs God?
(Jokes write theirselves!)
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Acutally, “Heavenly Mother(s)”
and you can’t make this stuff up.
There is even a well known (and well liked LDS hymn called Oh my Father).written by one of Joseph Smith’s plural wives that mentions here. It is currently #292 in the LDS hymnal.
I had learned to call thee Father, Through thy Spirit from on high,
But until the key of knowledge Was restored, I knew not why.
In the heavens are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare!
Truth is reason, truth eternal Tells me I’ve a mother there.
you can ask any question you want.
what is a Maronite? i never heard that term, so i don’t know if i am one or not.
i am glad you believe there is only One Jesus and that Jesus is God and that Mary gave birth to Jesus, therefore Mary is rightly called the Mother of God.
have you ever heard of the Council of Ephesus in 431ad and what the issues were that compelled the Church to meet in Council? or do you agree with Joseph Smith and the Mormons that the Church was apostate in 431ad?
Cool- does she predate God, “I Am That I Am”? In the beginning...etc.
I don’t worship Mary, or pray to her. She was blessed among women, in that she gave birth to our Savior. She does not pre-date God, nor is the Creator’s mother, as some pagan religions might suggest.
I have heard of the Council at Ephesus, but do not recall the issues.
“does she predate God?
NO.
good, i don’t worship her either!!
in fact, can you name anyone that does worship her? if yes, maybe we can straighten them out together.
what “pagan religions” suggest she predates God?
you might want to educate yourself on the Council of Ephesus and what heresies about Jesus Christ the Council condemned.
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