Does God have a Mother?

"This is an affirmation of the deity of Jesus, not an elevation of Mary."------------------------------------------------------------------------

You mean the voice from heaven and the resurrection just was not enough affirmation?
Sure it is! If it were simply and affirmation, it would have come from real churchmen and not from pagan mother goddess worshipers and nascent catholic henchmen.

"Being a mother does not mean I created the child" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Just because you agree to limit the word mother, does not mean everyone agrees. So why try to push a term that depends on an agreement you can't obtain???

 

I am only answering this because I don't think I answered it directly yet. I am not about to jump back into a full discussion.

He is Son (descendant) because Scripture says so. Also, because if he was not David's descendant, he could not be an heir to David's throne, thus a false king, thus a false Messiah. Note that Jesus did NOT say he WASN'T David's descendant in this passage, he simply asked a question that was to point out to the Pharisees that the descendant of David was also the Lord of David. Even the Pharisees recognized that the "Christ" had to be a descendant of David, but they were not ready to accept that whoever "Christ" was, was also David's "Lord". The Pharisees could not answer him, not because Christ is not a descendant of David, but rather the opposite (that the descendant Christ was also the "Lord" of David) - which they were not willing to accept. Jesus question in this passage, if answered (which they refused to do), proves both Christ's descendancy from David as well as his Lordship over him.

Marcia,

 

That's exactly what Eliyahu is saying. In the last few pages he referred to the Word wearing flesh like clothing, and that the flesh was not divine, just a covering of the divine.

 

Eliyahu, if you don't know the answer to that by now, after 15 pages of explanation, what point is there in continuing?

 

Melchizedek is in the OT, before the incarnation of Christ. Yes, Christ who is eternal does not need a mother to exist. But Mary was his mother when he incarnated; she did not cause his existence.

I think you are expressing confusion about what the incarnation and nature of Christ is.

 

I believe so! What do you think the problem with it? </font>[/QUOTE]This is a heresy called Monophysitism:
"Monophysitism denies Jesus' human nature, saying that he had only one nature, the divine nature."

If Jesus was merely a divine being covered with flesh, then he was not fully human, and you are denying his humanity, which contradicts the teaching of the NT.

 

Yes, I did answer it. It's posted above somewhere.

 

Yes, I realize Jesus existed before he incarnated. But incarnating does not mean that Jesus just put on flesh; it means he became human. Jesus the 2nd Person of the Trinity became man; he added a human nature. That is more than just appearing in flesh - it means he added a human nature.