08/09/2019
This article is dedicated to Mama Mary as today is her birthday.
AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT TO THE WOMAN OF OBEDIENCE, LET US SHARE THIS. WILL YOU ALSO DENY HER BY NOT SHARING?
Is Mary the mother of God?
By: Jess Real
This is an argument called by protestants as heretical. According to Baptist pastor STEVEN ANDERSON.
".....she's the mother of Jesus only in an eartly sense and taking that logical leap to calling her the mother of God is false doctrine and heresy"
For Anderson, even if Jesus is God and Mary is the mother of Jesus she cannot be the mother of God because Jesus created Mary.
What Anderson is using to promote this heresy that says Mary is not the mother of God is a NESTORIAN HERESY which is a Christian church condemned by the Catholic church for dividing JESUS into 2 persons. They deny that Jesus is a single divine person that has 2 natures. They don't believe that the 2nd person of the Holy Trinity which is the Son of God became man. They teach that Jesus was a man who was united to the Son of God that divides Jesus into 2 different individuals.
Anderson explicitly said that Mary is not the mother of God and not the mother of Christ but only the mother of the MAN JESUS. To say that Mary is the mother of the man Jesus but not of the Christ is to deny that the man Jesus is equals to Christ. Here is what Anderson said...
"...which Jesus physically descended from Mary? Yes He was. But is Mary the mother of God? NO. Is Mary the mother of CHRIST? NO. Mary is the mother of the MAN JESUS."
1 Timothy 2:5
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
Notice that in the verse it says that the CHRIST JESUS is a MAN which means Mary is the mother of the MAN CHRIST JESUS in contrary to what Anderson said that Mary is not the mother of Christ but only of the Man Jesus. To say that Mary is not the mother of Christ is to deny that Christ is a MAN which the Bible is clear to say that Christ is a man.
The Bible calls CHRIST as man.
Anderson denies that CHRIST is a man because of his doctrine that says Mary is not the mother of Christ but only of the man Jesus. So for Anderson, Christ is God and because Mary cannot be the mother of God, for him, Mary is not the mother of Christ. This is problematic.
In the same verse, the man is Christ Jesus. Jesus is a single person and He is God and man and Christ.
Anderson's statementa reject the fundamental truth of Christianity that the man Jesus is a Christ. Let us read Anderson's statement once again...
"Is Mary the mother of CHRIST? NO. Mary is the mother of the MAN JESUS."
Further, to say that Mary is the mother of Jesus but not of God is to deny that Jesus is God.
Heretics say that Jesus existed before Mary and that Jesus created her so she cannot be the mother of God.
What heretics don't get is that since Jesus is a single person with two natures, what is affirmed as an attribute of Jesus' human nature is predicated of or affirmed as an attribute of His divine person which is the 2nd person of the Holy Trinity even if it is not predicated of His divine nature.
Again...
What is predicated of - or affirmed as an attribute of Jesus' humanity is predicated of or affirmed as an attribute of His divine person even if it is not predicated of His divine nature because THE WORD BECAME FLESH [John 1:14].
Jesus' human qualities, attributes and experience truly belong to the one Jesus who is God eventhough they are not His divine attributes, or predicated of His divine nature. That is because Jesus the Son of God is one divine person with 2 natures. This 2 natures can be seen in the Bible.
Revelation 2:8
8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again. 9
Here, Jesus identifies Himself as THE FIRST AND THE LAST and this is a TITLE OF GOD (see [Isaiah 44:6]). In Rev. 2:8 Jesus identifies Himself as God in speaking of His divine person who was said to be THE FIRST AND THE LAST. Yet He states to be the First and the Last who was dead". In this verse, the FIRST AND THE LAST refer grammatically to the First and the Last" who is God. But Gof who is the First and the last cannot die in His divine nature.
In the same verse it says that the FIRST AND THE LAST who is God came to life. God cannot come to life in His divine nature for God always exists and alive. Therefore since the First and the last was dead and came to life, what is predicated of Jesus as a man in His humanity is predicated of God the Son eventhough it is not predicated of His divine nature.
Therefore Anderson's statement that denies Mary being the mother of God is denying that Jesus is God.
Jesus is a Man. Jesus is Christ. Mary is the mother of Jesus, a divine person with 2 natures. Mary is the mother of Christ who is God, therefore Mary is the mother of God. Thus Mary who gave birth to God the Son in his Humanity is the mother of God just as the first and the last who only died in His humanity was dead.
