Mary Mother of God?

Question

All Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and also IS God, being the 2nd Person of the Trinity, along with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Jesus is also the son of Mary. Now many Protestants are quite prepared to say "Mary, Mother of Jesus," but balk at saying "Mary, Mother of God." Why?

There is probably an element of cultural conditioning here. Giving Mary such a title like Mother of God seems too grand to many protestants. For centuries most protestants have tried to ignore Mary, and have avoided all talk and discussion of her - except perhaps to condemn Catholic "excesses". But this is a serious matter. To call Mary the "Mother of Jesus" and yet refuse to call her "Mother of God" is to diminish Jesus as well as Mary, for it is a denial that Jesus is truly or fully God.

The Virgin Mary is the Mother of ALL of the PERSON of Jesus Christ, and is therefore truly Mother of God the Son.

Why deny Mary as the Mother of God the son?

Answer 1

Why deny Mary?...it would destroy their "bibly only" doctrine. the disrespect shown the mother of Jesus by some protestants is encouraged through this false doctrine and many Protestants dishonour their God by abusing the name of His mother. There is no other human more favoured by God than Mary the mother of Jesus.

God's plan of salvation was dependent on Mary's obedience to His request to bear His Son. It is fitting that His Church has given her the title of Mother of God...she deserves no less....else we dishonour Jesus as the Word Incarnate. it is spiritual blindness of just plain stupidity for protestants not to see that this is indeed biblically justified.

Answer 2

God The Father, The Creator
Jesus= God in the flesh, Emmanuel "God with us"
The Holy Spirit,or The Spirit of God.
Mary was the mother of Jesus,she bare Him in the flesh.Just like we all are conveived in the womb and born of woman in the flesh,so was Jesus.

Answer 3

Mary the Mother of Jesus.

No woman in all history has been so highly honoured as the mother of Jesus, nor has any one been so misunderstood.
The Roman Catholics [the masses, at any rate] have practically worshiped her, and offten Mary stands in the place of Christ with those who pray to her and ask her intercession.
As a reaction aganist this almost idolatrous attitude toward Mary and the paintings and statues of her, most Protestants neglect her entirely.


Mary is portrayed to us in Scripture,she is, as we should have expected, the most tender, the most faithful, humble,
patient and loving of women, but a woman still.

She is Mary the Mother of Jesus.

Answer 4

Yes, Sister Mary was chosen to have the honor of creating the body of Jesus Christ.

But she is not an God, you pray to.

All prayers got to Jesus Christ her son, through the Holy Ghost.

Answer 5

Mary is the mother of God. I am protestant and have no problem with saying Mary is the mother of our God. I think some protestants believe when Mary went to the cross and Jesus told one of the disciples "Behold your Mother' he 'gave' responsibility of being a son to one of his disciples. So that statement implied that Mary wasn't that important. Again, I don't believe this and think there are many important things taken out of the bible that deal with women.

Answer 6

This is so NOT the point. JESUS is the point. Not disrespecting Mary, who God chose to be the vessel. But good grief, God chose, Moses, God chose David. The Bible says, "before Abraham was, I AM" Before Mary was, GOD WAS. You are focusing on the WRONG thing.

Edit: YES PASTOR ART. Right On.

Answer 7

Yes she is. 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.

Answer 8

I do not believe Mary was the mother of GOD. The trinity. She was the mother of Jesus. Mary was a sinner. Mary was not Holy. You cannot pray to Mary. Mary needed a savior just like the rest of us, she was not without sin.

Answer 9

I have no problem with calling Mary the mother of God. It was a title given to her as a way od saying something about Christ though, and not so that she could be adored as some kind of co-redemtrix.

Answer 10

How true.
Jesus is God incarnate
Mary is the mother of the Word made Man,
ergo,Mary is the Mother of God
since Jesus is God Incarnate
Mary is Mother of God Incarnate.