Mother of God??

There is no question whether Blessed Mary played a great role in Christian history or not. She was chosen by God to conceive the incarnate Word in the flesh. She was a virgin when she gave birth to Christ, and through her the glory and power of God was manifested as it is foretold by God through his prophets in the Old Testament:

• "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." Isa 7:14

With this prophecy fulfilled in Mary, Catholics, who pay great devotion to Mary, argue that if it's true that Mary gave birth to Jesus (who is God himself), then it logically follows that Mary is the Mother of God. This argument is officially supported by the Catholic Church (whether Roman or Orthodox).

Sad to say, but this argument of them is flawed and is against to what is taught in the Bible. God has no mother! According to the Bible, God exists from everlasting to everlasting to everlasting [Mic 5:2; Jn 1:1]. The truth of God's eternal existence leaves no room for the concept of Theotokos (Mother of God).


Christ's dual nature

We may recall at this point that Christ has two natures; He is truly God and at the same time, truly man [Col 2:9]. This is made possible through incarnation [Jn 1:14]. Long before he was born in the flesh, he pre-existed as the eternal Logos of God from everlasting to everlasting [Mic 5:2]. He was present in the days of Creation, and as a matter of fact, he made all things by his [own] power, and without him was not any thing made that was made [Jn 1:3; Heb 1:10].

Christ as God, therefore, has no mother. We must put in mind all the time that a mother is a mother [only] of what originates in her womb. It was Christ's humanity (flesh) that originated in Mary's womb, not his Divinity (spirit). The same argument is true with us humans. It is our flesh that originated in our mother's womb, not our spirit [Ecc 12:7]. Thus we read in Hebrews 12:9,

• "Moreover, we have all had human parents who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!" Heb 12:9
  

This verse provides us the idea that we have two kinds of parents: 1. earthly parents [or our parents in the flesh] 2. and a Spiritual parent [which is God]. Now, for the sake of argument, we must consider the same idea in application to the case of Jesus Christ: Mary is only Christ's earthly parent. [At this point we must not dare to think that Christ also has a spiritual parent in the sense that his spirit was made/created by a certain higher being. Christ calls God his "Father" not because his spirit was made by the Father, but rather because in his incarnate state he is subordinate to God's authority].

Therefore in his humanity, Christ had a mother. But in his Divinity (spirit), he is eternal. There is no such a thing as a "Mother of God."

Catholics praying to Mary, the Mother of God

This concept is not known to the Catholic majority until the Council of Ephesus on 431 AD. Also, in the Lateran Council in 469, Pope Martin declared: "If anyone does not confess in harmony with the holy Fathers that the holy and ever virgin Mary and immaculate Mary is really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she in the last times and without semen by the Holy Spirit conceived God the Word himself specially and truthfully, who was born from God the Father before all ages, and she bore him uncorrupted, and after his birth her virginity remaining indissoluble , let him be anathema."

This declaration is never supported by the Word of God (Bible). It is them who believe that God has a mother are the ones who are condemned for desperately distorting the Word of God in order to support their lies. If God has a mother, then we must also accept that God has a grandmother, grandfather, nephews, cousins.

This is ridiculous.