Yes, so Mary was the "mother of God" in that sense. Jesus was fully God in flesh and spirit, therefore Mary was the earthly mother of a being who was fully God, and she became so at the moment of His physical birth. It's just a simple matter of logic.
But she was NOT the mother of God in any normal meaning of the term mother. She was the God-bearer. In no way did she conceive God or bring Him into being. She was simply the God-bearer.
I know it sounds contradictory, but that is true in the same way that God is a man. God is a man NOW, since God became a man.
God is not a man. It is true that God became man, but He was not restricted within His manhood. It is your kind of loose terminology and thinking that results in heresy. God is NOT now a man. Man is not seated on the eternal throne. That is why Jesus in His manhood was depicted as on another throne at God's right hand. The Scripture knows nothing of your position.
Since Jesus, the second person of the Trinity was born of a virgin, it means that that mother was His mother- ie. God's Mother.
The very fact that she was a virgin proves that she was NOT God's mother. You should read a book about human conception. She was the mother of Jesus' humanity not of His Godhood. As the creeds say, 'Conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of (coming from the womb of) the virgin, Mary.' 'Born of the seed of David ACCORDNG TO THE FLESH' (Romans 1.2).
If it can be said that Jesus is Christ and God, then it can be said that God was born of a virgin.
Born of (coming from the womb of) but not conceived by. Thus she was not His mother in any normal sense of the word. God was NOT conceived by a virgin. Mary was the God-bearer, not the mother of God. In subjects like this you have to be exact. Islam arose because of slack language like yours.
And the one who gives birth in the world is a mother.
One who adopts a child is also a mother. But not his real mother. Jesus was not conceived by Mary. in a unique sense she adopted Him and bore Him in her womb. She was not His 'real mother' for He did not share her sinful nature..
Jesus is God and He had a mother. It's very simple,
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You simply expose yourself by such foolish statements. Jesus was God made man. A unique event in world history is not 'very simple'. Mary was the mother of His manhood but not of His Godhood. To call her the mother of God is to deceive. At no stage was she the mother of God in the normal sense of the word mother.
And one need not draw any strange implications from that fact like Mary preceding Jesus or something.
But if she was His mother in the normal sense of the word she DID precede Him. That is unavoidable.
Anyway, Mary is mentioned, if not by name in the Epistles. Paul writes that Jesus was born of a woman in Galatians. That's an important fact. Why else would Paul put it that way but to reflect the virgin birth?
No one is questioning the virgin birth. But 'mother' strictly means one who conceived and brought to birth. Mary did not conceive and bring to birth, she only brought to birth One Who was eternal and eternally begotten. She was not thus truly His mother.
Now the early Church, although it did see Jesus (who is God) as taking on flesh from an earthly mother, did not lay out the Catholic idea of immaculate conception that Mary was born sinless. I believe that that is a later innovation.
However in the first centuries of Christianity when the church laid out the Nicene Creed Christians beleive in and when they chose the Bible's books we all believe in, those same Christians called Mary the Mother of God (in Greek Theotokos). But they didn't mean anything irrational by that.
you give yourself away. theotokos does not mean 'God-mother' it means God-bearer. It makes the distinctions I make above. It was a term carefully chosen in order to avoid the term 'mother of God'. However, it is not a Scriptural term. It was an attempt by fourth century Christians (over 300 years after the New Testament) to convey certain ideas. It is NOT Scriptural truth. And it was specifically used in order to avoid the term 'mother of God' (theometer)..
So Mother of God is a fine term, but "Immaculate Conception of Mary herself" was not part of the early ideas but was instead an invention.
No it is a deceptive and misleading term. GOD HAS NO MOTHER. He is eternal.