Why Protest.& Evangelicals do not believe that Mary is the mother of God? If Jesus IsGod &Mary is his mother?

Question

Then Mary is The MOTHER OF GOD
Although Mary is the Mother of God, she is not his mother in the sense that she is older than God or the source of her Son’s divinity, for she is neither. Rather, we say that she is the Mother of God in the sense that she carried in her womb a divine person—Jesus Christ, God "in the flesh" (2 John 7, cf. John 1:14)—and in the sense that she contributed the genetic matter to the human form God took in Jesus Christ.

To avoid this conclusion, Fundamentalists often assert that Mary did not carry God in her womb, but only carried Christ’s human nature. This assertion reinvents a heresy from the fifth century known as Nestorianism, which runs aground on the fact that a mother does not merely carry the human nature of her child in her womb. Rather, she carries the person of her child. Women do not give birth to human natures; they give birth to persons. Mary thus carried and gave birth to the person of Jesus Christ, and the person she gave birth to was God.

Answer 1

Of course you are quite correct.

It would depend on what councils they accepted as truly teaching Christian faith. I expect most of them would say they accept the Nicene creed if they read it (mainstream Protestants like Lutherans, Episcopalians, Methodists, etc, accept it).

I think most fundamentalists have never heard about the Council of Ephesus that you implicitly refer to. I doubt very much that they intend to be Nestorians (or Monophysites for that matter). They reject the title Mother of God because they think it is 'Catholic' without recognizing that the JWs reject the Nicene Creed for the same reason - as being 'Catholic'. Unlike the JWs, though, I think fundamentalists want to have an authentic understanding of Jesus Christ and his natures, they just don't have the theological tradition to talk about it. Unfortunately they ending up rejecting true teaching about Jesus.

Answer 2

I am a "Fundamentalist", Protestant, Evangelical, Charismatic, Foundationalist.... and this is news to me.
Granted I haven't been a believer for eons but in all my experience before and after my conversion I never heard that.

It had never even been intimated that, that philosophy was part of the doctrine.
Even in a Pentecostal church where I got saved they were very clear that Mary was the mother of Jesus and that she carried an actual baby in her womb, who was born in the usual way.
Is that what you are saying?
I would have to say that the only understanding I have ever had is the one you state in your first paragraph.

Answer 3

I "personally" disagree with you. Mary carried and gave birth to Jesus, the son of God, our Lord and Savior. God was his father and Mary his mother. No I do not know how all the conception part came about between the two, but, never have I heard Jesus called God.

Sorry, I am not as articulate as you or as eloquent with the words, but, ....

Answer 4

I don't know where your getting your information but Protestents know very well Mary carried Jesus in her womb. It's very clearly stated in the Bible. They do not worship her or pray to her but they do recognize she was blessed by God. You have some very odd ideas of what Protestants believe.