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Yes. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Theotokos.

2007-04-12 14:53:49 · answer #1 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 4 3

No. Lets look at the "flaw" in the logic. 1) Jesus is God 2) Mary is the Mother of Jesus 3) That makes Mary the Mother of God. Now, why stop THERE? Lets keep going. 3) Mary is the Mother of God 4) God is a Trinity 5) That makes Mary the Mother of the Trinity. See where faulty logic gets you? If #5 is ridiculous, then so is #3. Mary is the Mother of the God-Man. Just the humanity part, NOT the Diety. Get it?......theBerean

2007-04-12 14:57:37 · answer #2 · answered by theBerean 5 · 0 0

In truth, Mary IS the Mother of God. She is the Mother of God the Son; she is NOT the mother of God the Father; she is NOT the mother of God the Holy Spirit; she is NOT the mother of God from all eternity. She is, however, the mother of God the Son IN TIME.

If you claim that Mary is only the mother of Jesus in the flesh...his humanity, then you side with the early heretics who claim that Jesus was a mere man. The question is -- At what point did Jesus become divine? At his birth? Half-way down the birth canal? If you claim that Jesus was divine from eternity (God from God, Light from Light, True God from True God....the Nicene Creed), then Mary is indeed the Mother of God. This has been the teaching of the Catholic Church from its beginning. When this teaching was challenged by the heretics (Nestorians), the Church found it necessary to call an ecumenical council which took place in Ephesus in 431.

Ephesus, by the way, is where the apostle John lived when he took Mary into his care after Jesus confided his mother to John in John 19:27. It is in modern day Turkey.

John himself makes the claim that "...in the beginning was the Word...the Word was with God and the Word was God" (JN 1:1). He does not say that the Word became God but the Word was God, thus confirming that Jesus was God from eternity...there was never a time that he was not divine.

Here is the decision concerning this great and grave matter from the council of Ephesus:

"...because the holy virgin bore in the flesh God who was united hypostatically with the flesh, for that reason we call her mother of God, not as though the nature of the Word had the beginning of its existence from the flesh (for "the Word was in the beginning and the Word was God and the Word was with God", and he made the ages and is coeternal with the Father and craftsman of all things), but because, as we have said, he united to himself hypostatically the human and underwent a birth according to the flesh from her womb."

2007-04-12 15:36:57 · answer #3 · answered by The Carmelite 6 · 1 0

Yes, and if mary is the mother of God, then not just for Christians.

2007-04-12 14:54:09 · answer #4 · answered by wisemancumth 5 · 1 2

Yes I am a Christian & no Mary is the mother of Jesus.

2007-04-12 14:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by Big Time Yankees Fan 3 · 4 0

Jesus Christ is true God and true man, and as He was born of Mary she is truly the Mother of God. The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity was born of her according to the humanity He derived from her. She is not a goddess, for God did not take His Divine Being from her. But she is the Mother of God since the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity was truly born of her in His human nature.

How could Mary be the mother of the One who created her?

Mary owed her being, of course, to God, but this under the aspect of His eternal nature. Subsequent to her creation that human nature was born of her which the Son of God had assumed to Himself. She was, therefore, the mother of Christ. But Christ was one Divine Person existing in two natures, one eternal and divine; the other, temporal and human. Mary necessarily gave birth to a being with one personality and that divine, and she is rightly called the Mother of God.

2007-04-13 02:15:03 · answer #6 · answered by Pat 3 · 0 0

Jesus was true God and true Man and Mary was the mother of the entire Jesus. That would make her the Mother of God. She was declared the Mother of God in affirmation that Jesus was True God and True Man, not a demi god, half God and half man.

2007-04-12 16:39:40 · answer #7 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1 0

Mary is the birth mother of Jesus's human body. Jesus was around since the beginning. So she is the mother of his flesh, but not the mother of God.

2007-04-12 14:53:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

Mary is not the mother of God the Father. She would be appalled by the worship of her. Catholics, who claim her as the mother of God, are not Christians. They are Catholics. Christians follow Christ, thus the name, CHRISTians. God said, "This is my beloved son. Hear ye him." He said nothing about listening to a pope who claims to be sent by God. Jesus doesn't even want us to pray TO Him. He says to pray to the Father THROUGH Him. Mary does NOT answer prayer. Nor does she relay the message. She was only a humble vessel, NOTHING more. Nothing MIRACULOUS about her, ONLY GOD.

2007-04-12 15:01:07 · answer #9 · answered by Angel L 3 · 0 0

Mary is the mother of Jesus, who is completely one with God, but that does not mean she is any less mortal than you or me.

2007-04-12 14:55:30 · answer #10 · answered by James 2 · 0 0

Mary is the mother of Jesus, not God.

2007-04-12 14:53:09 · answer #11 · answered by foleycat 3 · 4 1

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