bound said:
No one is suggesting nor has suggested that Mary's Motherhood was the origin the Godhead or the Logos in particular but it was her Motherhood that was chosen by God to enter His Creation. If she's good enough for Him, seriously, who are we to object?
She wasn't "good enough". Therein is one objection. "There is none good, no not one. And that includes Mary. Theotokos is a heretical doctrine that gives undue glory and even deification to Mary, honor that is due only to God. To rob God of his glory is sin. She was a vessel used of God in a point in history. There have been many men and women used of God: Moses, Abraham, Ruth, Joshua, Isaiah, etc. But undue attention is given to Mary only because she was used in a different manner than the rest of these individuals who also lived by faith and obeyed, submitting themselves to the will of God.
We all know that we our Faith saves as our Father in Faith (Abraham). Mary has always been an admirable example of humble faith. Let it be done to me as you have said... If only I could be so accommodating to our Lord...
Read 1Sam.1. Hannah said the same things.
We all also know that 'in' Christ we are sons and if sons heirs of the Godhead. If anything screams 'deification' it's this... How much more so is Mary who literally had Christ within her is made a daughter and in so being an heir?
Mary of her own admission needed a Saviour, and admitted that she was a sinner. She even brought a sin-offering to the priest. Bringing forth the Lord did not make her any more holy. God could have chosen any young Jewish maiden at that time. Mary was not sinless. He chose Mary. Why? We don't know, and the Bible doesn't say. The act of choosing didn't give Mary salvation. She had to believe God for her salvation just like everyone else. You are reading too much into the Scriptures.
This is why the Early Church not only recognized the 'deification' of Mary but 'all' the Saints who share as heirs the Godhead.
And much of what you refer to the "Early Church" was heretical. Origen was declared a heretic even by the Catholic Church. The Jews knew that there is only One God, and so did the Christians. We are not polytheistic in our beliefs. I hope you are not. To deify Mary is sin. It is idolatry. Your above statement is wrong. The early church did not deify Mary; perhaps the early Catholics, the early heretics, but not the early believers.
Perhaps you particular soterology doesn't have a particularly developed teaching on Sanctification but the 'making Sacred' was and is a very big part of our Christian Faith.
Sanctification simply means to "set apart." Every Christian is set apart at the time of salvation, and as they grow in Christ there is a process of sanctification that ought to be going on in that believer's life. It also has the meaning of being holy. "holy, set apart" Mary was set apart to perform a particular service for God. And she accomplished it. She did the will of God. Any obedient Christian would do the same, and still does.
This 'making Sacred' is known as Theosis in the Eastern Church and helps explain what was meant by 'heirs' in the Scriptures.
And that is not a Scriptural view.
I don't believe there is anything 'unbiblical' about this and in fact believe it to be the actual job of the Church (i.e. the healing of Humanity).
You have a misunderstanding of "the Church." What Church?"
God works through local churches which he has ordained in this day and age, just as in the Old Testament, he ordained the Temple to be the symbolic dwelling place of God. I do not say that the church building is the symbolic dwelling place of God. It isn't, and that isn't the definition of a church. The believer is called the temple of God (1Cor.6:19,20), and those believers who voluntarily unite themselves together to carry out the ordinances of Christ and to obey the Great Commission form a church. God works through local churches, not denominations which are not found in the Bible.
Theotokos is not found in the Bible. The concept of Mary being the mother of God is not found in the Bible. Go to the website I posted. The worship and deification of Mary is not found in the Bible. It is all heretical.
