If Mary is called the Mother of GOD then why isnt she included in the Christian Godhead ?

Answer 1

Because she is human, not divine.

She was the vessel God used to allow His Son to become human. She was "the mother of God" in that God caused her to become pregnant with Jesus. Jesus is God the son. Ergo, she became the mother of God -- Jesus.

It's really a simple concept. People who object to it usually have a fear of questioning their own fundamentalist beliefs -- deep down they know they are flimsy and unfounded.

Answer 2

Mary is called the Mother of God in Catholic belief but not a belief in the rest of the Christian Religion. Mary is the vessel which God use to reincarnate Himself into a human form. She is only a vessel to produce the human form of Christ Jesus. She is a mother of Jesus but not the Mother of God. She is a human not a deity with Almighty power. Since the Catholic religion believe in the immortality of the human souls at death, which is not Biblical. The Catholic follower worship her as the Chinese worship their ancestor and good dead persons as their gods. This is a form of idolatry (please read the ten commandment in Exodus 20). The worship of Mary as greater and the Mother of God is an instrution of pagan reltion adapated into the Christian Religion. Beware, Mary is only a good human being. She is not God or the the Mother of God.

Answer 3

The Godhead is only one person in three people, Mary is another person, the mother of Jesus.

Answer 4

She is the Mother of God the Son -- different concept. it's not a cut and dry, a + b = c understanding. Mary IS the mother of our Lord and Saviour who IS God. Mary is the the mother of God the Father.

Answer 5

She is hardly the mother of God.
She is the surrogate mother that God used to let his son be born as a human on this earth. She must have been a good person and a loyal kind person for God to have selected her.
But that is like worshiping a bird instead of the one who created the bird. She is only the human that God used.

Answer 6

She's human, the Godhead is divine. She is simply the vessel that God used to bring Jesus into this world. She was an amazing woman of faith, "blessed" and "highly favoured"..but she was NOT divine herself.
God bless

Answer 7

I think she was important as being mother of god but she was not what christianity was based on it is based more on the teachings of the bible as a whole not on one person,i believe she was used to deliver god,but it could have been any one,she was just a way for god to come to us in a more human way,think about this,people who got a chance to see his miracles in person,did not believe in him,what would have happend if he were just to come out from heaven and say im here to save you beleive in me.
Catholics are the one s who put a great deal of importance on mary...not chrystians.

Answer 8

Fundamentalists are sometimes horrified when the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Mother of God. However, their reaction often rests upon a misapprehension of not only what this particular title of Mary signifies but also who Jesus was, and what their own theological forebears, the Protestant Reformers, had to say regarding this doctrine.

A woman is a man’s mother either if she carried him in her womb or if she was the woman contributing half of his genetic matter or both. Mary was the mother of Jesus in both of these senses; because she not only carried Jesus in her womb but also supplied all of the genetic matter for his human body, since it was through her—not Joseph—that Jesus "was descended from David according to the flesh" (Rom. 1:3).

Since Mary is Jesus’ mother, it must be concluded that she is also the Mother of God: If Mary is the mother of Jesus, and if Jesus is God, then Mary is the Mother of God. There is no way out of this logical syllogism, the valid form of which has been recognized by classical logicians since before the time of Christ.

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.

The Nestorian claim that Mary did not give birth to the unified person of Jesus Christ attempts to separate Christ’s human nature from his divine nature, creating two separate and distinct persons—one divine and one human—united in a loose affiliation. It is therefore a Christological heresy, which even the Protestant Reformers recognized. Both Martin Luther and John Calvin insisted on Mary’s divine maternity. In fact, it even appears that Nestorius himself may not have believed the heresy named after him. Further, the "Nestorian" church has now signed a joint declaration on Christology with the Catholic Church and recognizes Mary’s divine maternity, just as other Christians do.

Since denying that Mary is God’s mother implies doubt about Jesus’ divinity, it is clear why Christians (until recent times) have been unanimous in proclaiming Mary as Mother of God.
But Mary cannot be part of the Godhead as She is a created being and not divine.

Answer 9

She is called "Mother of God" to protect the doctrine of the enhypostatic union against Nestorianism. In layman's terms, Jesus was God, Mary was his mother.

Answer 10

Fundamentalists are sometimes horrified when the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Mother of God. However, their reaction often rests upon a misapprehension of not only what this particular title of Mary signifies but also who Jesus was, and what their own theological forebears, the Protestant Reformers, had to say regarding this doctrine.

A woman is a man’s mother either if she carried him in her womb or if she was the woman contributing half of his genetic matter or both. Mary was the mother of Jesus in both of these senses; because she not only carried Jesus in her womb but also supplied all of the genetic matter for his human body, since it was through her—not Joseph—that Jesus "was descended from David according to the flesh" (Rom. 1:3).

Since Mary is Jesus’ mother, it must be concluded that she is also the Mother of God: If Mary is the mother of Jesus, and if Jesus is God, then Mary is the Mother of God. There is no way out of this logical syllogism, the valid form of which has been recognized by classical logicians since before the time of Christ.

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.