Honest question for christians?

Question

Is Mary(may Allah be pleased with her) the mother of God?
If so, there are a bunch of questions that come to mind. I wouldn't know where to start. Thank you.

thank you for respecting my religion sue, we should talk sometime

Answer 1

JESUS often prayed to God, whom he called Father, and he also taught others to do so. (Matthew 6:9-11; Luke 11:1, 2) In prayer with his apostles-only hours before his death-Jesus petitioned: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you. This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”-John 17:1,3
Notice that Jesus prays to One whom he calls “the only true God.” He points to God’s superior position when he continues: “So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.” (John17:5) Since Jesus prayed to God requesting to be alongside God, how could Jesus at the same time be “the only true God”? Let us examine this matter.
Jesus’ Position in Heaven
A few hours after this prayer, Jesus was executed. But he was not dead for long-only from Friday afternoon till Sunday morning. (Matthew 27:57- 66-28:6 ) “This Jesus God resurrected,” the apostle Peter reports, “of which fact we are all witnesses.” (Acts 2:31, 32) Could Jesus have resurrected himself? No, according to the Bible, the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) “The only true God,” Jesus’ heavenly Father, resurrected his Son.-Acts 2:32; 10:40.
A short time afterward, Jesus’ disciple Stephen was killed by religious persecutors. As they were about to stone him, Stephen was granted a vision. He stated: “Look! I behold the heavens opened up and the Son of man standing at God’s right hand.” (Acts 7:56) Jesus, “the Son of man,” was thus seen by Stephen in a role supportive to God in heaven-“at God’s right hand”-even as he had been ‘alongside God’ before he came to earth.-John 17:5.
Later, after Stephen’s execution, Jesus made a miraculous appearance to Saul, better known by his Roman name, Paul. (Acts 9:3-6) When Paul was in Athens, Greece, he spoke of “the God that made the world and all the things in it.” He said that this God, the “only true God,” will “judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.” (Acts 17:24, 31 Here the apostle Paul described Jesus as “a man”-yes, lesser than God-whom God had restored to life in heaven.
The apostle John too described Jesus as subordinate to God. John said that he had written his Gospel so that readers might come to believe that “Jesus is the Christ the Son of God”-not that he was God. (John 20:31) John also received a heavenly vision in which he saw “the Lamb,” who in his Gospel is identified as Jesus. (John 1:29) The Lamb is standing with 144,000 others, who John says “have been bought [or resurrected] from the earth.” John explains that the 144,000 have the Lamb’s “name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.”-Revelation 14:1.
Could “the Lamb” be the same as “his Father”? Clearly not. In the Bible they are distinct. They even have different names.
Name of the Lamb and of the Father
As we have just seen, the name given to God’s Son, the Lamb, is Jesus. (Luke 1:30-32) What about his Father’s name? It appears in the Bible thousands of times. For example, Psalm 83:18 says: “You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” Sadly, God’s name, Jehovah, has been replaced in many Bible translations by the terms “LORD” and “GOD,” often spelled in all capital letters. The capitals are supposed to distinguish Jehovah from others called gods or lords.* Yet, in many Bible translations, the Divine Name has been restored to its rightful place.
The English-language American Standard Version (1901) is a notable example of a Bible translation that has restored God’s name, Jehovah, to its rightful place. Its preface observes: “The American Revisers, after a careful consideration, were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament, as it fortunately does not in the numerous versions made by modern missionaries..

NORWAY
Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), c. 13th century C.E.
The Trinity-Whose Teaching?
What, then, about the teaching that Jehovah and Jesus are, in effect, the same God, as the Trinity doctrine proclaims? In its issue of April-June 1999, The Living Pulpit magazine defined the Trinity this way: “There is one God and Father, one Lord Jesus Christ, and one Holy Spirit, three ‘persons’ . . . who are the same or one in essence . . . ; three persons equally God, possessing the same natural properties, yet really distinct, known by their personal characteristics.”#
Where did this complex Trinity teaching originate? The Christian Century, in its May 20-27, 1998, issue, quotes a pastor who acknowledges that the Trinity is “a teaching of the church rather than a teaching of Jesus.” Even though the Trinity is not a teaching of Jesus, is it consistent with what he taught?
The Father-Superior to the Son
Jesus taught his disciples to pray: “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” Our heavenly Father, whose name is Jehovah, is described in the Bible as being superior to his Son. For example, Jehovah is “from everlasting to everlasting.” But the Bible says that Jesus is “the firstborn of every creature.” That Jehovah is greater than Jesus, Jesus himself taught when he said: “My Father is greater than I.” (Matthew 6:9; Psalm 90:1, 2; Colossians 1:15 ; John 14:28, King James Version) Yet, the Trinity doctrine holds that the Father and the Son are “equally God.”
The Father’s superiority over the Son, as well as the fact that the Father is a separate person, is highlighted also in the prayers of Jesus, such as the one before his execution: “Father, if you wish, remove this cup [that is, an ignominious death] from me. Nevertheless, let, not my will, but yours take place.” (Luke 22:42) If God and Jesus are “one in essence,” as the Trinity doctrine says, how could Jesus’ will, or wish, seem different from that of his Father?-Hebrews 5:7, 8; 9:24.
Furthermore, if Jehovah and Jesus were the same, how could one of them be aware of things of which the other was not? Jesus, for instance, said regarding the time of the world’s judgment: “Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father.”-Mark 13:32.
The Trinity and the Church
The Trinity is not a teaching of Jesus or of the early Christians. As noted previously, it is “a teaching of the church.” In its 1999 issue on the Trinity, The Living Pulpit observed: “Sometimes, it seems that everyone assumes that the doctrine of the trinity is standard Christian theological fare,” but it added that it is not “a biblical idea.”
The New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967) discusses the Trinity at length and admits: “The Trinitarian dogma is in the last analysis a late 4th-century invention. . . . The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century.”
Martin Werner, as professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, observed: “Wherever in the New Testament the relationship of Jesus to God, the Father, is brought into consideration, whether with reference to his appearance as a man or to his Messianic status, it is conceived of and represented categorically as subordination.” Clearly, what Jesus and the early Christians believed is far different from the Trinity teaching of churches today. From where, then, did this teaching come?
The Trinity’s Early Origins
The Bible tells of many gods and goddesses that people worshiped, including Ashtoreth, Milcom, Chemosh, and Molech. (1 Kings 11:1, 2) Even many people in the ancient nation of Israel once believed that Baal was the true God. So Jehovah’s prophet Elijah presented the challenge: “If Jehovah is the true God, go following him; but if Baal is, go following him.”-1 Kings 18:21.
The worship of pagan gods grouped in threes, or triads, was also common before Jesus was born. “From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity,” observed historian Will Durant. In the Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, James Hastings wrote: “In Indian religion, e.g., we meet with the trinitarian group of Brahma, Siva, and Visnu; and in Egyptian religion with the trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis, and Horus.”
So there are many gods. Did early Christians acknowledge this? And did they view Jesus as Almighty God?
Is Jesus Christ God?
“Those
Who Are Called ‘Gods’”
In this series:
Who Is Jesus Christ?
Who Is “the Only True God”?
Whatdoes “the Only True God” Promise?
True Teachings-Where Can You Find Them?
Who Is God?
Do You Know God by Name?
WHEN the apostle Paul healed a lame man in Lystra, the people shouted: “The gods have become like humans and have come down to us!” Paul they called Hermes, and his companion Barnabas, Zeus. (Acts 14:8-14) In Ephesus the silversmith Demetrius warned that if Paul was allowed to continue to preach, ‘the temple of the great goddess Artemis would be esteemed as nothing.’-Acts 19:24-28.
People in the first century-like many today-worshiped “those who are called ‘gods,’ whether in heaven or on earth.” Paul, in fact, said: “There are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’.” However, he also explained: “There is actually to us one God the Father,” and “there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.”-1 Corinthians 8:5, 6.

The people of Lystra were inclined to call Paul and Barnabas gods
Was Jesus Also Called God?
Although Jesus never claimed to be God, as Jehovah’s appointed ruler he is identified in Isaiah’s prophecy by the terms “Mighty God” and “Prince of Peace.” Isaiah’s prophecy adds: “To the abundance of the princely rule and to peace there will be no end.” (Isaiah 9:6, 7) So, as the “Prince”-the son of the Great King, Jehovah-Jesus will serve as Ruler of the heavenly government of “God Almighty.”-Exodus 6:3.
Yet, a person may ask, ‘In what sense is Jesus a “Mighty God,” and didn’t the apostle John say that Jesus is himself God?’ In the King James version of the Bible, John 1:1 reads: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Some argue that this means that “the Word,” who was born on earth as the baby Jesus, is Almighty God himself. Is this true?
If this verse were interpreted to mean Jesus was himself God Almighty, it would contradict the preceding statement, “the Word was with God.” Someone who is “with” another person cannot be the same as that other person. Many Bible translations thus draw a distinction, making clear that the Word was not God Almighty. For example, a sampling of Bible translations say the following: “The Word was a God,” “a god was the Word,” and “the Word was divine.”
Bible verses that in the Greek language have a construction similar to that of John 1:1 use the expression “a god.” For example, when referring to Herod Agrippa I, the crowds shouted: ‘It is a god speaking.’ And when Paul survived a bite by a poisonous snake, the people said: “He is a god.” (Acts 12:22; 28:3-6 It is in harmony with both Greek grammar and Bible teaching to speak of the Word as, not God, but “a god.”-John 1:1.
Consider how John identified “the Word” in the first chapter of his Gospel. “The Word became flesh and resided among us,” he wrote, “and we had a view of his glory, a glory such as belongs [not to God but] to an only-begotten son from a father.” So “the Word,” who became flesh, lived on the earth as the man Jesus and was seen by people. Therefore, he could not have been Almighty God, regarding whom John says: “No man has seen God at any time.”-John 1:14, 18.
‘Why, then,’ one may ask, ‘did Thomas exclaim when seeing the resurrected Jesus, “My Lord and my God!”?’ As already noted, Jesus is a god in the sense of being divine, but he is not the Father. Jesus had just told Mary Magdalene: “I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.” Remember, too, why John wrote his Gospel. Three verses after the account about Thomas, John explained that he wrote so that people “may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God”-not that he is God.-John 20:17, 28, 31.

Jesus told Mary Magdalene: ‘I am ascending to my God and your God’
Who Is “the God of This World”?
Clearly, there are many gods. Some, as we have seen, are named in the Bible. Yet, people who saw Jehovah’s power long ago exclaimed: “Jehovah is the true God! Jehovah is the true God!” (1 Kings 18:39) Another god, however, also has power. The Bible says: “The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.”-2 Corinthians 4:4 , King James Version.
The night before his death, Jesus three times warned his disciples about this god, calling him “the ruler of this world.” Jesus said this powerful ruler, or god, “will be cast out.” (John 12:32; 14:30; 16:11) Who is this god, and what is the world over which he is the ruler?
He is none other than the rebel angel, Satan the Devil. How do we know? The Bible explains that when Satan tempted Jesus, Satan showed him “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and he said to him: ‘All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.’” (Matthew 4:8, 9) This offer would not have been a temptation at all if Satan had been offering Jesus what Satan did not possess. Indeed, the apostle John declared: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.”-1 John 5:19.
Recall that Jesus promised: “The ruler of this world will be cast out.” (John 12:31) In fact, this world, or system of things, along with its ruler, will be removed, as foretold by the apostle John when he stated: “The world is passing away.” However, John added: “He that does the will of God remains forever.” (1 John 2:17 ) now the glorious purposes of the only true God and how we can benefit from them.

* See The New Testament, by James L. Tomanek; The Emphatic Diaglott, interlinear reading, by Benjamin Wilson; The Bible-An American Translation, by J.M.P. Smith and E. J. Goodspeed.

Answer 2

God caused Mary to be pregnant with Jesus. Mary remained technically a virgin. Are you curious if they had a roll in the hay?? No, apparently not, God has the power to do anything, and he caused Mary to be pregnant with Jesus. Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit constitute the Trinity.
Remember, since there IS only one God, Allah and God are the same entity, so you might hold your tongue about any more snide insinuations which may be blasphemy. If you want to really learn more about it, read THE HOLY BIBLE. In the New Testament it tells you all about it in very simple language.

Answer 3

Yes, Mary is the Mother of God.
Mary is the mother of Jesus.
Jesus is God.
therefore:
Mary is the Mother of God.
Clarification: Mary is not the mother of God in His divinity. Mary gave flesh to the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Our mothers, too, are responsible for providing the material for our bodies. God creates the soul. Nevertheless it is improper for us to refer to our mothers as the "mother of our bodies." They are just our moms. It is understood that our soul could only be created by God, and that the Blessed Virgin Mary is not in any way the progenitor of the divinity of Jesus.

Answer 4

Mary is earthly mother of Jesus Christ who is the son of God.
God is a triune god made up of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit------Who cares if Allah is pleased or not????? You need to find out that Jesus Christ is the only way to GOD and that is is not just a good man or a prophet. Go to a Christian Book store and ask for a good study Bible and read it. One day every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the father. There is no other name given on earth whereby you must be saved. Not Allah, not Jibba Jabba, NONE.

Answer 5

YES. She was conceived without ANY blemish of sin including original sin (Immaculate Conception) so that she could bare the Christ, Jesus, the Son of God, the second person of the Triune Godhead. So, she is indeed the mother of Jesus who is God. She is not the Mother of the Father or of the Spirit. These are the mysteries of the immaculate conception and of the Trinity.

Want more? See the Catechism, paragraph 490 and on

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P1K.HTM#ET

Peace,

MoP

Answer 6

Mary is the mother of Jesus. Jesus is the Son of God, but also God at the same time because of the Trinity. But Mary did not bring God into being, He existed before there was time.

Answer 7

The question in and of itself is confusing. There are so many religions out there and people all feel strongly about their religion of choice. Many of the answers I've read sound like they were responded to in a very passionate manner. The answers you recieve may not be the answers you're looking for, but it would be interesting to have a conversation with many of the responders if for no other reason except to be enlightened. Don't you think?

Answer 8

According to Christianity Mary is the mother of JC. Mary is not the mother of the guy that made everything in the 7 day thing. Christians believe in the trinity. So JC, the guy that made everything and the holy spook are the three of them.

Answer 9

Yes. Mary bore Jesus, who was the human form of God (the second part of the Trinity). Jesus, the son of God, or God the son, had to live as a human as part of his sacrifice to forgive our sins. It would not work if he just poofed down here, said his ministry and wasn't human enough to die. He had to have a human mother.

Answer 10

The spirit that lived as Jesus Christ called himself the
Morning Star. It is a misinterpretation that makes some think
He was God. Since he spoke of his Father who was still
in Heaven while He was on the Earth.
Once, Jesus clearly stated that his Father, "IS GREATER
THAN I."
Since there have been many visions of Mary. I would have to
think that this is more our Creator wanting us to respect
women, and the feminine principle of Creation.

Answer 11

Yes. She conceived through the Holy Spirit, being a virgin, gave birth to and raised Jesus, God incarnate, the Son of God. She was a remarkable human being.