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Jesus is God incarnate, one Divine Person, two natures (NOT two persons!). It's called the Hypostatic Union in theology. To say that Mary was mother ONLY of the man Jesus is to divide His Divine Person in half which is impossible. She is indeed the Mother of God BECAUSE she is mother of the God-Man Jesus Christ. It's very logical.
God is a trinity, three persons in one God. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Scripture is pretty clear about that. Jesus even prays to his Father, not himself. If Mary is so holy and divine, why not her mother as well? Why isnโt she mentioned more in the New Testament. Do the disciples even mention her? The Bible is the ultimate authority and there is nothing Iโve read to back up those claims.
Mary is not divine, she is a creature and a human, but filled with grace by God in view of her vocation as the vessel and Mother of Jesus, God incarnate. Mary's mother was St. Anne and she is indeed revered from the early church as one who waited and prayed for the coming of the Messiah. She and St. Joachim conceived Mary after years of childless waiting. This is pious tradition passed down, not Scripture. The Bible is indeed sacred, but St. John says if everything Jesus said and did were written down, there would not be room in the world to hold all the books. So obviously there were teachings that were important (from the mouth of God's Son) but were not entered into the canon of Scripture.
Wow, that right there is some mental gymnastics. Sorry fren Mary is NOT the mother of God.
Please follow up (if you choose refute) where in the scripture the term โHypostatc Unionโ is mentioned or better defined. Thanks.
Catholics don't follow the non-Catholic Rule of Faith. Catholics would look to the Magesterium for doctrine, not to the Bible per se.
The Catholic Rule of Faith is Scripture + Tradition, which cannot contradict each other.
Catholics believe Jesus gave us a church initially, not a Bible. The Bible came later through His Church.
The Protestant (non-Catholic Christian) Rule of Faith is sola scriptura. Yet even that teaching itself (sola scriptura) cannot be found anywhere in scripture.
In sum, it's a different ecclesiology.
How do you explain Elizabeth's exclamation in Luke 1:28? Here is some further information: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource/56002/mary-the-mother-of-my-lord
Friend, here is a good summary of the term Hypostatic Union, where it came from, and an article by a non-Catholic Christian about the subject. May be more palatable knowing that other Christians do indeed embrace and ascribe to this important truth about Christ.
The term "hypostatic union" originated from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. The term is used to describe the belief that Jesus Christ was both fully human and fully divine at the same time. The term comes from the Greek word hypostasis, which means "subsistence" or "individual existence".
The term was used in the context of the Incarnation, to describe the idea that Christ had two natures, but was one person. The Council of Chalcedon's definition of the hypostatic union included four negative statements, including that Jesus Christ was not a third thing, and that the incarnation did not change the divine Son in any substantial way.
The term hypostasis was used by Greek philosophers to distinguish reality from appearances, and it also appears in the Epistles of St. Paul. However, in early church discussions, the word began to be used to refer to the distinctness of the three persons in the Trinity, rather than the sameness of God's essence.
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-is-the-hypostatic-union
Jesus is God's Son. God Himself was very clear in that. What a loss in the relationship with God and His Son people suffer when they don't understand that. John 14:12 the works that I do shall ue do also, amd greater works than these shallnye do because I go unto my Father.
If that verse is true then how would it work if Christ is God? Our works are energized by God, we could not therefore do more powerful works than God, but we can do greater works than Jesus according to his own words.
God is Spirit and no man hath seen Him at any time, Jesus was seen of many and he had to be baptized and recieve spirit.
Why if hi is supposed to be God. Study where those fables originated.