I thought there are more than 2 on this thread who calls Mary the Mother of God. Let me comment in the meantime and I have some further questions to verify the difference between 2 groups, the one who calls Mary as the Mother of God and the other group who opposes to it.
As for the previous questions:
1. What is Mary doing now?
We can realize from the answers by the people who call Mary as the Mother of God, that they do not know the status of Mary or what she is doing now. Isn't this remarkable for the Christian believers who read Bible ?
Answer is that Mary is sleeping now.
Bible shows the following clues:
1)Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept(1Cor 15:20)
2)We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.(1Thess 4:15)
3) For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many asleep.(1Cor 11:30)
4) Jesus mentioned "Our friend Lazarus is dead" Jn 11:14, when Lazarus was dead (Jn11:14)
5) Even in OT Daniel mentioned " Many of them that asleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt" Dan 12:2
6) Stephen fell asleep when he was martyred "he fell asleep.(Act 7:60)
Therefore we can safely conclude that all the people including Paul, Mary, John all died in Christ, are sleeping now.
Have you read these before ?
2. Wrong answers from both:
Nobody has entered the Heaven yet, but the believers who died in Christ sleep in Paradise, which may be called Bosom of Abraham or one part of Sheol (the other part of Sheol is for the unbelievers waiting for the resurrection of damnation:- Jn5:29)
The Robber at the Cross entered Paradise as per Luke 23:43
Later on, when Jesus comes, He will take us to the Heaven.
3. She is sleeping now but when she wake up and realize that so many people were calling herself as Mother of God, she would say "ridiculous" because she is a believer and knows very well about the nature of human being, and that Jesus is Son of God existing from eternity to eternity, before herself, and that she was created by Jesus and created for Jesus, and that she herself had been destined to go to the hell without Jesus and needed a Savior as she confessed (Lk 1:47), now she can enter the Heaven just because Jesus shed blood at the Cross and paid all the price for her sins by dying for her. She will be satisfied with her own role by faith because she believed in God and obeyed Him and did faithfully what was assigned to her, as a temporary mother of Jesus on this earth.
4. I think God would call Mary as Mary or deem her as woman, simply as Paul called her "woman" Gal 4:4. Even Jesus would call her Woman as he called in Jn 2:4 or in Jn19:26, or Mary, or my sister( as Heb 2:11), or Woman servant! Mary confessed herself as maidservant (Lk1:48), not Mother!
5. Yes I mentioned that in my childhood I thought Jesus had no father but only mother, now I believe that Jesus has only Father without Mother, because I do not know him after flesh any more (2 Cor 5:16). We can call Mary as Mother of Jesus in order to identify her, as I explained previously 2-3times on this thread, as follows:
Please read carefully what I posted:
"I can still recognize the deity of Jesus without calling her Mother of God since she was mother of Jesus only for a short period among the eternity"
Our role and contribution is nothing compared to the eternity and immensity of what God has done for us.
6. Please remember that Paul mentioned Our Mother indicating Sarah-Jerusalem in Gal 4:22-26 as Jews call Sarah as their Mother.
I think nobody has answered my question as follows:
7. Shall we call James, Brother of Jesus as Brother of God? because Jesus is God and James was His Brother. If you deny calling James as Brother of God, then you are denying that Jesus is God, aren't you? I am asking this question to the people who call Mary as the Mother of God. Please answer!
[ December 09, 2005, 08:54 PM: Message edited by: Eliyahu ]
