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1 | Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. | Amos 1:1 | Emmaus | 69516 | ||
Crossman, See Luke 1:43. Who is the "Lord" spoken of in this text? Is Jesus God? Is Mary his mother? Jesus is a Divine Person, the second Person of the Trinity, who took on a human nature in additon to his divine nature. But women give birth to persons not natures. Mary is the mother of God, but not his creator, since she is his creature and creation. If you don't like what Luke had to say and don't want to take my word for it, here is what Martin Luther had to say on the subject. "Men have crowded all her glory into a single phrase: The Mother of God. No one can say anything greater of her, though he had as many tongues as there are leaves on the trees." From the Commentary (of Luther)on the Magnificat. ". . . she is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God. . . . it is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God." Ref: Sermon on John 14. 16: Luther's Works ( St. Louis, ed. Jaroslav, Pelican, Concordia. vol. 24. p. 107 "Christ our Savior was the real and natural fruit of Mary's virginal womb. . . . This was without the cooperation of a man, and she remained a virgin after that." REf: On the Gospel of St. John: Luther's Works, vol. 22. p. 23, ed. Jaroslav Pelican, Concordia, 1957 ". . . she is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin. . . . God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. . . . God is with her, meaning that all she did or left undone is divine and the action of God in her. Moreover, God guarded and protected her from all that might be hurtful to her." Ref: Luther's Works, American edition, vol. 43, p. 40 , ed. H. Lehmann, Fortress, 1968 Commentaries on Luther ". . . in the resolutions of the 95 theses Luther rejects every blasphemy against the Virgin, and thinks that one should ask for pardon for any evil said or thought against her." Ref: Wm. J. Cole, "Was Luther a Devotee of Mary?" in Marian Studies 1970, p. 116: "In Luther's Explanation of the Magnificat in 1521, he begins and ends with an invocation to Mary, which Wright feels compelled to call "surprising"". David F. Wright, Chosen by God: Mary in Evangelical Perspecive (London: Marshall Pickering, 1989, p. 178, Cited from Faith and Reason, Spring 1994, p. 6. "Most interesting of all, perhaps, is the realization that his burial chamber in the Wittenberg church, on whose door he had posted his 95 Theses, was adorned with the 1521 Peter Vischer sculpture of the Coronation of the Virgin, with the inscription containing these lines: "Ad summum Regina thronum defertur in altum: Angelicis praelata choris, cui festus et ipse Filius occurrens Matrem super aethera ponit." Ref: P. Stravinskas in Faith and Reason, Spring, 1994, p. 8: Emmaus |
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2 | Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. | Amos 1:1 | CROSSMAN | 69528 | ||
Thank for replying. God does not have a mother, God was always around, mary was not,God became a man. Jesus also called her woman not mother. Mark 2:4 "Dear woman, why do you involve me? Luke 8:21 "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice" My friend, she hears God's word and put's it into practice, and has His Spirit within her,does this make her mother of God or just a vessel? Also in Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God... Catholic bow and my the cross sign across the head and chest, and say hail mary mother of God. It is a comand not to bow to anything above or below heaven or make an idol and worship it. Catholic do both and clain she is queen of heaven, so that would make her married to her son because He is king of kings and Lord of Lords. |
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3 | Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. | Amos 1:1 | Emmaus | 69561 | ||
Crossman, Is Is there more than one Jesus? Is mary his mother? Is Jesus God? If Jesus is God and Mary is his mother, she is the mother of God. We are are not talking about the mother of the Trinity, but the mother of God. In Greek the title is Theotokos, God Bearer. "Catholic bow and my the cross sign across the head and chest, and say hail mary mother of God." Actually, Catholics doe not say, Hail Mary mother of God." When we make the sign of the cross we say, "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." We do not cross ourselves when we say the Hail Mary. When we say that we say, "Hail Mary! full of Grace. The Lord is with you." Luke 1:28, Then we say, "Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death." Please do an internet search on Nestorius and Nestorianism. And also do a search on the Council of Epehsus. You may find some interesting information. Emmaus |
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4 | Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. | Amos 1:1 | CROSSMAN | 69590 | ||
Hi and God bless you. "we are not talking about the Trinity, but the mother of GOD..." The Trinity is God. Jesus was both God and man. The God part of Jesus was around before mary. The man Jesus which is His flesh His human side came from mary. Mary is not the mother of the Holy spirit, because that is the part of Jesus which is God. John 4:24 God is Spirit God is not flesh and bone that is human part of Jesus. What about what it say in the Ten comandments. Exodus 20:4 " You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them." The catholic church do worship mary in the form of bowing and she is not an mediator between man and God. Jesus said " I am the way the Truth and the Life. No one can comes to the Father except through me. |
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5 | Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. | Amos 1:1 | srbaegon | 69602 | ||
Hello CROSSBEARER The Council of Chalcedon which Joe quoted and Emmaus alluded to (and which every Protestant group through history has agreed with) does state that Mary is God-bearer or mother of God. All that means is Jesus the God-man was born of a human female. Nothing more. Steve |
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6 | Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. | Amos 1:1 | CROSSMAN | 69620 | ||
Amen brother steve. Am I going over the top with this, I just don't understand why catholic's worship mary, when the bible speaks against this. | ||||||
7 | Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. | Amos 1:1 | srbaegon | 69626 | ||
Hello CROSSBEARER The problem was that there were different thoughts being expressed in one thread. I agree with you. How can anyone worship (venerate, adore, etc.) Mary when all glory belongs to God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ? Steve |
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