2007-11-09 05:09:29 · 18 answers · asked by carl 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If she would not be, then what would her Son be?
2007-11-09 05:12:14 · update #1
I'd like to be able to express shock at the fact that heresies settled over a thousand years ago are being regurgitated in answer to this question; but I am not shocked, really. When people throw away the historical perspective of Christianity, this is what happens.
Jesus' body most certainly *is* God. Otherwise, God would not be truly incarnate, but would merely be pulling the strings of a human puppet named Jesus.
The language of scripture is quite clear. If God the Father is Jesus' Father, and Mary is Jesus' mother, then Jesus' body is both God and man simultaneously. That is a fact inherent in the language of "father" and "mother."
My mother is Irish, and my father is Italian. When I cut myself shaving this morning, which blood came out? The Irish, or the Italian? The answer is both, of course. My Irishness is pervasive, as is my Italianness. If my Irishness is pervasive, then my mother is not the mother of some piece of me; she is the mother of my whole person. Therefore she is not only the mother of an Irishman, but also the mother of an Italian. And yet she contributed nothing to my Italianness.
Saying that Mary is the Mother of God is merely acknowledging the fact that Jesus is at the same time both God and man. By saying that, we do not in any way suggest that Mary contributed to Jesus' divinity. Jesus is begotten of His Father, and it is from His Father that He receives His divinity.
2007-11-09 08:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous Lutheran 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe Jesus is God No I do not believe Mary is the mother of God. The eternal Son of God became a man named Jesus[incarnation] Mary was the Virgin mother of Jesus as a human. Jesus died as a human and God did not die.
2007-11-09 14:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by Don Verto 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What does the Bible say? Does it say that Jesus was God?
At Luke 1:35, Gabriel told Mary: "Holy spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason also what is born will be called holy, God’s Son."
It is very clear that Jesus was God's Son, NOT God himself. That would make Jesus the human mother of the Son of God.
2007-11-09 13:25:53 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Spirit in Jesus was God. Mary was the mother of the body of Jesus. The body of Jesus isn't God. God is a Spirit. without a beginning and without and end. God cannot have a mother, for then we will have questions about the grandmother, the great grandmother...
2007-11-09 13:17:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Holy Bible
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth
(if the word was God and Jesus was the word made flesh then this is of one body)
Luke 1:35
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Father – Son- Holy Spirit….all one God
2007-11-09 15:46:11 · answer #5 · answered by ' 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not god nor son of God , he was a messenger of God and a human being like all the previous prophets of God. His mother Mary was also a human being and was a noble women of clean charecter.
2007-11-09 13:18:43 · answer #6 · answered by shahin_iqbal92 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mary was the earthly mother of God in that she gave birth to Jesus, who is God in the flesh. But God has no mother or father.
2007-11-09 13:20:37 · answer #7 · answered by sdb deacon 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nestorius was only considered a heretic because his beliefs were not the same as the majority, nor was he alone in his believes. The council had to vote if Jesus was seperate from God or was God. Since the majority believed Jesus was God, they cast the rest out as heretics.....such tolerance for "unbelievers" was not allowed. So much for Jesus telling us to love one another.
2007-11-09 13:19:54 · answer #8 · answered by ahedou2 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I am not Catholic so I do not accept that whole mother of God doctrine.
Remember when the apostles told Jesus that His mother and brothers were here to see Him; and Jesus looked upon the multitude and said, "Behold, these are my mother and brothers!"
2007-11-09 13:16:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I thought Jesus was the son of God....but then there's the father, the son and the holy spirit stuff...it's funked up...
2007-11-09 13:22:57 · answer #10 · answered by suicide_ballroom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋