To gloss over the INCARNATE aspect of Christ's birth is to deny the Trinity in favor of exaulting Mary as "Mother of God".
Originally posted by TP:
Response: Nobody has ever said that Mary created God.
Quite the contrary. The birth process for humans is PROCREATION because the parents PROCREATE their offspring. To place Mary in the role of PROCREATOR of God -- is to exault Mary with a "God title" at the expense of diminishing God!
However, No parent creates the soul of their children. God creates that. So being mother is not the creative dimension,
"Again" you miss the concept of PROCREATION. And you show that you are perfectly willing to blur the distinction between PROCREATION and INCARNATION to exault Mary at the expense of the deity.
This is the position that the RCC has placed itself in -- you are simply arguing in a way that highlights the RC error when you argue that normal Mother and Father roles in procreation are to be assumed for Mary regarding GOD!
Originally posted by TP:
Nobody is saying that Mary predates Jesus,
That's just it! The RCC can't say that God really was STARTED was PROCREATED by Mary -- which is EXACTLY what we mean we we speak of our parents -- BUT they want to USE that parent of God TITLE for Mary to exault her - -they want it "both ways" so they don't seem to mind if the result is to exault mary and diminish christ - to the level of procreated GOD.
The lessening of God is not what the RCC "says" it wants -- it would love to have it "both ways" -- keep God as He is and raise Mary up to the status of PROCREATOR of God - Mother of God,,,
But God the Son was NOT PROCREATED in Christ - He was INCARNATED in Christ! And that is a huge difference.
In Christ,
Bob