Can we consider Blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of God?

Answer 1

No, although some people believe in the trinity even they believe Jesus was God in human form and Mary was Human.

God the Father is not human! He was not born of flesh! And he was around before Mary was born!

The way the Trinity was explained to me was: Think of God as your Palm, Jesus, Angels, Holy Ghost, Satan, and Man are the fingers. All of them are separate but become one when you look at your hand!

Answer 2

Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, who is God the Son, and therefore can be addressed as the Mother of God.

This is similar to a commoner who marries a king and becomes the mother of the next king. She is entitled to the title Queen and Mother of the King even though she is not royalty or divine.

Nobody two hundred, five hundred or a thousand years ago would have been confused about these terms.

But this is hard for people to understand in these times where royalty and kings and queens are few and far between.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Mary was blessed to be the mother of my Lord

we are all His mother and sisters and brothers who do God's will, Jesus said so

Mary was at the cross, she was in the upper room when the Holy Spirit was given and at the cross Jesus turned Mary and John over to each other; not Peter

Answer 4

Where is this taught in Scripture? Where does it say that Mary was exalted above angels and men second only to her son? This would mean that Mary is just under Jesus, the creator of the universe, in position. I assumed his place is a place of authority, holiness, etc. Vatican II's comments are not biblical. This teaching can not be found in Scripture and should be abandoned.
This is a misleading term. Mary is not the Mother of God in the sense that God, the created the universe, had a mom. This would be far too close to Mormon theology. Rather, Mary is the mother of the human nature of Jesus, not the mother of the divine nature.
However, it can be said in some sense that she is the Mother of God if what is meant is that her womb carried the incarnate Word. This incredible privilege does not mean that God, the holy and infinite being, was nursing at her breast after his birth. But, it does mean that the person of Jesus was. It was the human nature that nursed, not the divine.

Answer 5

Yes. The objections come from either those who do not believe in the Trinity, or who associate any mention of Mary (outside the Nativity) with Catholicism which they are vehemently against regardless; therefore, they must refute "Mother of God". To be precise, she is the Mother of the Second Person of the Trinity ... who, at least for trinitarians, is God. From that perspective there is nothing offensive or blasphemous in referring to Mary as such.

Answer 6

O God, who by the Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
did prepare a worthy dwelling place for Your Son,
we beseech You that, as by the foreseen death of this, Your Son, You did preserve Her from all stain,
so too You would permit us, purified through Her intercession, to come unto You.
Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, world without end

Answer 7

Is Jesus Christ God?
Is the Blessed Virgin Mary the mother of Jesus Christ?

To say that the Blessed Virgin Mary is not the mother of God requires that one either deny that she is the mother of Jesus Christ, to deny that Jesus Christ is God, or to embrace the heresy of Nestorianism.

Answer 8

Pastor Billy says: to do otherwise is not authentic Christianity.

I've read someone say she is the mother of Jesus not God that is heresy. Jesus is God in ancient Christian belief this is dogma which cannot be changed.

The title of Mary reflects the true person of Christ as God.
My question to the person denying Mary as Mother of God is when was Jesus not God?

For your information all first Protestant reformers affirmed Mary as Mother of God including Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and John Wesley later on.


addendum: CJ you have a faulty biblical interpretation, there is no scripture when taken in context that explains Mary had additional children. From the bible alone one cannot prove or disprove additional offspring.
I have a question for you also, is a saved person dead? I'll give you a hint, "God is a god of the living, he is a god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who are not dead and either are Mary, Peter or Paul. CJ your understanding of those in heaven make them dead to Jesus which is not authentic Christianity at all.

Answer 9

Latria is a Greek term used in Catholic theology to mean adoration, which is the highest form of worship or reverence and is directed only to the Holy Trinity.

Latria is sacrificial in character, and may be offered only to God. Catholics offer other degrees of reverence to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Saints; these non-sacrificial types of reverence are called Hyperdulia and Dulia, respectively. Hyperdulia is essentially a heightened degree of dulia provided only to the Blessed Virgin.

In Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglo Catholic theology, veneration is a type of honor distinct from the worship due to God alone. Church theologians have long adopted the terms latria for the sacrificial worship due to God alone, and dulia for the veneration given to saints and icons. Catholic theology also includes the term hyperdulia for the type of veneration specifically paid to Mary, mother of Jesus, in Catholic tradition. This distinction is spelled out in the dogmatic conclusions of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787), which also decreed that iconoclasm (forbidding icons and their veneration) is a heresy that amounts to a denial of the incarnation of Jesus.

Veneration is a religious symbolic act giving honor to someone by honoring an image of that person, particularly applied to saints.

The Blessed Virgin, as manifesting in a sublimer manner than any other creature the goodness of God, deserves from us a higher recognition and deeper veneration than any other of the saints; and this peculiar cultus due to her because of her unique position in the Divine economy, is designated in theology hyperdulia, that is dulia in an eminent degree. It is unfortunate that neither our own language nor the Latin possesses in its terminology the precision of the Greek. The word latria is never applied in any other sense than that of the incommunicable adoration which is due to God alone. But in English the words adore and worship are still sometimes used, and in the past were commonly so used, to mean also inferior species of religious veneration and even to express admiration or affection for persons living upon the earth. So David "adored" Jonathan. In like manner Miphiboseth "fell on his face and worshipped" David (2 Samuel 9:6).

Answer 10

No. What does the Bible say. At Luke 1:35, Gabriel said that Mary would give birth to God's Son, NOT to God. How much clearer does it need to be? Mary is the earthly mother of God's Son, NOT God himself.

Answer 11

We can consider her the birth mother of Gods only begotten son in human form. Not the mother of God.