Well, that was a non answer.<<
>>This is the central mystery of our faith.<<
I can see that it is.
>>Are you not doing the reverse, separating the nature of Jesus but not of God?<<
Just as I do the three natures of God. Separate and distinct persons just as your statement God is three separate and distinct persons. But you claim Jesus does not have separate and distinct persons. Catholicism says they cannot be viewed as separate and distinct thus they claim Mary to be the "mother of God". Jesus said God had forsaken Him on the cross. Did God forsake the God part of Jesus? In other words, did God forsake part of Himself?
>>What I am looking for is an understanding of how someone can hold that Mary is not the mother of God.<<
Yeah, so I thought.
>>but I can’t figure out how, with Jesus being God whole and entire, it can be said that Mary is the mother of the Son of God without also saying that Mary is the mother of God.<<
Yet you can make the statement "there is one God but three separate and distinct persons". The disconnect in your thinking is striking.
>>the mother of the Son of God?<<
Then my mother can also say she is the mother of "the son of God".
Galatians 3:26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
Would you say my mother is the "mother of God"? I am after all a "son of God" per scripture. Your line of logic would say she should be.
This is the key point. Can Mary be called the mother of:
the one who will save his people from sin?
Immanuel (God with us)?
the Son of the Most High?
the Son of God?
If not, why not?
I still have not gotten a satisfactory answer.