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Au contraire, it is the carnal mind that cannot grasp the mystery of the incarnation.it also follows that Mary is the mother of God.
Carnal minds can think so, because it certainly seems rational in a human way.
It doesBut Scripture doesn't say so
If Christ God did not truly become man in every sense of the word, then there is no resurrection of the dead.and it has absolutely nothing to do with being born again, living for God, and attaining to the resurrection of the dead.
I know no such thing. Yet another strawman you have created.And we both know there are many, beginning with them that made up this stuff, who are in idolatry over the 'Mother of God'.
The heretics were teaching that God did not truly become man, which appears to be what you ascribe to.If it were just a simple error of humanist rationalizing, then it wouldn't be such a big heretical deal in Christianity, overthrowing the faith of many who have corrupted much Scripture to try and believe it and teach it to others.
Mary was not the mother of Christ, even as Christ was not the son of David:
Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.” When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.”
And behold, two blind men sitting by the roadside, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent; but they cried out the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” And Jesus stopped and called them, saying, “What do you want me to do for you?” They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.”
Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.” When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.”
And behold, two blind men sitting by the roadside, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent; but they cried out the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” And Jesus stopped and called them, saying, “What do you want me to do for you?” They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.”
Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
You seem to think that because the Pharisees were not able to comprehend the prophetic word of David's Psalm, that Jesus was denying He was the son of David. Why does He respond to that name and never correct those who call him such if He was not in fact the son of David? You are as blind as the Pharisees.
Paul says "likeness of sinful flesh" because Christ did not sin, even though He had the same flesh as we do. You also ignore that the verse says, "He was made of a woman". It does not say, "His body was made of a woman"He was made of a woman in the likeness of sinful flesh, and only according to that likeness was He made of the seed of David.
That is simply the heretical product of your carnal thinking.Mary was the mother of a baby boy of flesh and blood called Jesus, and the Son who dwelt in that flesh knew exactly Who and where He was the whole time, and that woman was not His 'Mother' nor mother.
Although she no doubt mothered Him pretty good as a child. But once He began His ministry to the full, she wasn't even that anymore:
God creates our body and our soul. Mothers give birth to and nurse whole persons, body and soul.Mary was the mother of a body, which is all any mother brings into the world.
It is only God who makes souls and wraps them in flesh in the womb.
Another strawman. God is our maker, not our parents.We honor them as mother and father, but we do not honor them as our makers:
And here you courageously knock down the very strawman you set up. Congratulations.Calling any woman mother of God is to make her a maker of God. It's called idolatry.
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