Mary Mother of God

Mary Mother of God #1
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1. The Catholic Church teaches that Mary, the Mother of Christ, should also be referred to as Mary, the Mother of God.

2. Many Protestants object, but this objection is nothing new.  In the early Church, a prominent archbishop named Nestorius rejected giving Mary the title of “Mother of God”.  He claimed that Christ was not one person with two distinct natures but a combination of two persons, one human and one divine - and that Mary was only the mother of his human nature.  This issue was deliberated at the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD and the Church declared, and today all Christians agree that Christ is one divine person, who took on his human nature at conception.  In this light, the Church concluded that, not only is it correct to call Mary the Mother of God, to deny this is to deny that Christ himself is God, come down to earth from heaven.

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Mary Mother of God #2
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Audio: FF - Mary Mother of God 2.mp3

1. The Catholic Church teaches that Mary, the Mother of Christ, should also be referred to as Mary, the Mother of God.

2. Many Protestants object to referring to Mary as the Mother of God, however, even Martin Luther the father of the Protestant Reformation said, "She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God."  In his Commentary on the Magnificat, Luther also said, "Men have crowded all her glory into a single phrase: The Mother of God.  No one can say anything greater of her."  The Catechism of the Catholic Church agrees, stating in paragraph 495, "The One whom she conceived by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity.  Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly ‘Mother of God’."

3. Examining the truths of the Catholic faith, this is FaithForensics.org.