The eighth century Syrian Priest, John of Damascus, put it like this:. We do not say that God was born of her in the sense that the divinity of the Word has its beginning of being from her, but in the sense that God the Word himself, who was timelessly begotten of the Father before the ages and exists without beginning and eternally with the Father and the Holy Ghost, did in the last days come for our salvation to dwell in her womb and of her was, without undergoing change, made flesh and born… De Fide III.
The wonder of the incarnation is that the Son of God from all eternity was born again from the womb of the Virgin. This divine Person, the Word, was made flesh by taking flesh from Mary. Rather than lose something in the incarnation, God the Word took on our humanity. We can propose correctly that 1 Jesus is God Hebrews ; 2 God became flesh John ,14 ; 3 therefore, Mary is the mother of Jesus according to the flesh Romans , i. Second, we should keep in mind that Deity is not constituted by a literal family—with fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters—like some of the gods of Greek and Roman mythology.
Although we refer to the first and second Persons of the Godhead as the Father and the Son, these titles do not denote a literal familial bond, but emphasize Their united and divine nature. Third, consider the consequences which develop from such an inappropriate use of the syllogism aforementioned. This is not only a completely erroneous application of Scripture, but also blasphemous theology.
The Son did not have a beginning; He is the Beginning. He was alive in eternity cf. Micah , and, at the right time in history, He became flesh John , On the other hand, Mary came into a time-bound world long after the creation of the Universe. She, like all human beings, was not eternal. She could not have provided an eternal nature to her Son. Something similar happens in our relationship with the Virgin Mary. But why do we say that God wanted us to have a relationship with the Virgin Mary?
The Bible gives us the answer. They hold a special importance because, as we know, no one would waste their last breath by saying something superfluous. What does this mean? Probably not. John does something similar throughout his Gospel. She becomes the mother of every beloved disciple, of every person who follows Jesus.
God has given us a great gift — his own mother as our companion. This has to do with the way God has chosen to act in history, in his plan of redemption.
This proves true even in our own lives. How many times has God talked to us through others? God acts through others, he uses mediations. Another example of mediation is praying for one another. The letter of St. James clearly calls us to do it Jas 5: That is, only he was capable of uniting man to God, only he could become the bridge that overcame sin and brought us to new life.
God became one of us in the mystery of the Incarnation God-becoming-flesh. The story of the Incarnation is related in the infancy narratives of the gospels of Luke and Matthew. Luke's gospel tells us that God sent the angel Gabriel to Mary, a young woman of Nazareth in Galilee.
Mary consented, and Jesus Christ was conceived in her womb. Luke Mary then goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who greets Mary as "mother of my Lord. Luke Other passages of the Bible testify to the same fact. Mary is the Mother of Jesus Christ Matthew Jesus Christ is God.
John Therefore, Mary is Mother of God. Jesus Christ's origins are both divine and human. The miraculous conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary was the moment when the immortal, eternal God took on a mortal body and entered our history.
From the moment of his conception, Jesus was both God and human, and from that moment Mary has been Mother of God. Therefore, belief in Mary as Mother of God is linked to belief in the reality of the Incarnation. This is a mystery which is beyond our understanding and must be accepted in faith. Some have refused to believe. Even in New Testament times there were those who denied that Jesus could be identified with God.
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