Welcome back to Shemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. Protestants arguing with Catholics about Mary

feels almost like a tale as old as time. We've been doing this apologetic dance for centuries,

and today I want to try to put some of these tired old steps to rest for good. So these are five

of the worst arguments against Mary and how to answer them. Now before we get into that, I need to

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All right, let's get into it. Argument number one, Mary can't be the mother of God.

Okay, so take this piece from Apologetics Press. It claims that Mary isn't the mother of God

because God doesn't have a

physical mother, because nothing in the Bible presents Mary is the mother of God, and because calling

Mary the mother of God is worshiping her. None of that is true. Mary is the mother of Jesus. Jesus is

God. Therefore, Mary is the mother of God. It's honestly that simple.

Scripture refers to Jesus as God. The Apostle Thomas famously cries out, my Lord and my God, in John

28. And Jesus, who is God, has a physical human mother, as Scripture says repeatedly.

Now, that doesn't make Mary the originator of the Trinity.

You know, if you're a woman who gives birth to a son, you didn't originate his masculinity,

but you're nevertheless still completely 100% his mother. Like all mothers, Mary is the mother of a

person, not a depersonalized nature. And in her case, she's the mother of a divine person, Jesus Christ,

who is God. And contrary to the claims of these Protestants, that is exactly how Scripture

presents things. In Luke 1, verse 43, Elizabeth, filled by the Holy Spirit, refers to Mary as the mother

of my Lord. Now, Lord there is a reference to Jesus' divinity, as Adonai,

the word for Lord, was the way that observant Jews would often avoid saying the name Yahweh.

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