If the Holy Virgin Mary gave birth to god (supposedly), then is god dependent upon someone for his birth? Does that make Mary a higher goddess?

[Goku1001]

[BCRanger10]

No. That would be blasphemy.

For one thing, the first chapter of Saint John's Gospel notes that "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." It later on says "the Word became flesh" (or "was made flesh", depending on the translation). There's a series of ancient Christian prayers called the Liturgy of the Hours. In one of them, for January 1st, there's what's called the Canticle of Zecheriah. There is a line in it that says "[H]e remains what he was and becomes what he was not."

What this all means is that God the Son took on human flesh, became man, but continued to be what He always was, which is God. This would be summed up as what the Church calls the hypostatic union, or the union of Christ's divine nature with His human nature. Christ is the only being in all of existence that has two natures. Jesus, whom the Church sometimes calls the "God-Man", received His human nature from Mary.

Therefore, Mary is the Mother of God, but is herself not higher than or greater than God.

[FunkyMonkee]

A human woman gave birth to god and then god created the universe and a man and a woman who, supposedly, eventually begat a woman named, Mary who begat god, who created the universe (ad infinitum)? How does that work?

[Goku1001]

Love this!

[jennifer_bloom]

Mary had other children after Jesus and Jesus said she is a virtuous woman but not a divine being or a miraculous future beneficiary of divine power. She did the work of motherhood and receives the same reward as all who do that work. She is not to be extrapolated as divine because of her bodily offspring. She also rebuked Jesus for doing the will of God at age 12, so she is not perfect in personality.

[NamerOfStars]

No, but it's a valid question. God, in taking on human nature, had to be made as a human would- which requires another human. It wasn't bringing God into existence, but into human existence.

[Phoenix98]

She was a human plain and simple, blessed by god yes but most certainly was not a goddess or any sort of divine being.

To actually follow and believe that nonsense is blasphemy.

[strateguy632]

no & no. the body was born but god existed before.

[Goku1001]

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[Goku1001]

So god is dependent upon certain things

[BIZARRE_TRUTH]

No She was a vessel for Gods Son

[OtterMan68]

She gave birth to the Son of God.