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Jesus and Mary
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. (Lk 1:31)… Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Lk 1:34-35)… And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. (Lk 1:38)… But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (Gal 4:4)… And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Tm 3:16, KJV)

JC Sanchez words are in square brackets.  Source: Click here.

[Nobody is contesting that Mary was the mother of Jesus.]
JC Sanchez, your hatred with the mother of Jesus shows.  In your laced statement “Mary was the mother of Jesus,” you are insinuating Mary is no longer the mother of Jesus.
Is Mary no longer the mother of Jesus when He ascended into heaven?
Well, the Bible says Mary is still the mother of Jesus even when He ascended into heaven:
  • They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.” Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.  All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.  (Acts 1:11-14)
Nowhere in the passage does it say “Mary who was the mother of Jesus.”  It says “Mary the mother of Jesus!”
Therefore, the correct statement should be, “Mary IS the mother of Jesus,” and not JC Sanchez’ “Mary WAS the mother of Jesus.”
Note: Unless otherwise specified all Bible quotes are taken from the New American Bible.

[What’s wrong is to say that Mary is the mother of God.]
No JC Sanchez, what’s wrong is to say that “MARY IS NOT GOD’S MOTHER”.
You see, “MARY IS NOT GOD’S MOTHER” is an absolute declaration that Jesus Christ is not God and that makes you a heretic.
If you say “MARY IS NOT GOD’S MOTHER”, all the idiots, morons and nincompoops (like yourself) in the whole world that deny Jesus Christ is God will have a field day and they will deify you as their god and hero.
Let us compare these two syllogisms to show how idiotic your cause is, JC Sanchez:
Correct premise:
Mary is Jesus’ mother; JESUS IS GOD; therefore MARY IS GOD’S MOTHER.
Wrong premise:
Mary is Jesus’ mother; JESUS IS NOT GOD; therefore “MARY IS NOT GOD’S MOTHER”.
In case some wise guys will come out with this syllogism to muddle up things:
Mary is God’s mother; God is the Triune God; therefore Mary is the Triune God’s mother.
Well, even that is biblical because the child to be borne by Mary is the Triune God:
  • For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Is 9:6, KJV)
Therefore, it’s not wrong to say that Mary is the mother of God.  What’s wrong is to say that Mary is not the mother of God.

[God is the beginning and the end, he is the Creator of all.  God has NO MOTHER.]
That is your unfounded opinion JC Sanchez, because the Bible says otherwise.
Jesus Christ is the God who is the beginning and the end:
  • “Behold, I am coming soon. I bring with me the recompense I will give to each according to his deeds. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” Blessed are they who wash their robes so as to have the right to the tree of life and enter the city through its gates.  Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the unchaste, the murderers, the idol-worshipers, and all who love and practice deceit.  “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.” (Rv 22:12-16)
Jesus Christ is the God who is the Creator of all:
  • In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.  (Jn 1:1-3, Amplified Bible)
  • He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him]. (Jn 1:10, AMP)
  • For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are my son; this day I have begotten you”? Or again: “I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me”? And again, when he leads the first-born into the world, he says: “Let all the angels of God worship him.”  Of the angels he says: “He makes his angels winds and his ministers a fiery flame”; but of the Son: “Your throne, O God, stands forever and ever;  and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.  You loved justice and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions”; and: “At the beginning, O Lord, you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands.”  (Heb 1:5-10)
  • He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  (Col 1:13-17)
Jesus Christ is the God who was sent to Mary to partake of her flesh and blood and to be born of her:
  • Now since the children share in blood and flesh, he likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life. (Heb 2:14-15)
  • But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption. As proof that you are children, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” (Gal 4:4-6)
Therefore, Jesus Christ the God who is the beginning and the end and the Creator of all HAS A MOTHER:
  • Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. (Mt 1:18)
  • “And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Lk 1:43)
  • Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. (Jn 19:25)
  • All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. (Acts 1:14)
Therefore JC Sanchez, your unfounded opinion remains everlastingly unfounded.

[You forget that God B̲E̲C̲A̲M̲E̲ ̲A̲ ̲M̲A̲N̲.  It is Jesus T̲H̲E̲ ̲M̲A̲N̲ that Mary bore.  When Jesus returned to his glory he is no longer a mere man.  He is now God, King of kings and Lord of lords.]
JC Sanchez just spilled out the idiotic theology of Protestantism that goes this way:
When God became a man, he is no longer God but Jesus, a mere man.  It’s only when Jesus returned to his glory that he became God and no longer a mere man!
Thus, in the mind of Protestants, Jesus Christ is not God but a mere man from his conception in his mother’s womb on earth to His ascension in his Father’s throne in heaven.  It is no wonder they cannot accept Mary is the mother of God because Jesus Christ to them is not God during his 33 years of life on earth.
Protestantism smacks of Arianism and Nestorianism!
Thanks to JC Sanchez for exposing their diabolical disposition.
Is the child conceived by Mary a mere man and not God as JC Sanchez would have us deceived?  No.  Anyone saying the child conceived by Mary is a mere man and not God is making God a liar because God said through the angel Gabriel that Mary will conceive His only begotten Son who is Holy:
  • But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. (Lk 1:34-35)
Is the Son of God God?  Yes, the Son of God is God. Anyone saying the Son of God is not God is making God a liar because God Himself said that His Son is God (twice), Christ, and Lord who created all things:
  • For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are my son; this day I have begotten you”? Or again: “I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me”? And again, when he leads the first-born into the world, he says: “Let all the angels of God worship him.”  Of the angels he says: “He makes his angels winds and his ministers a fiery flame”; but of the Son: “Your throne, O God (SON), stands forever and ever; and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.  You loved justice and hated wickedness; therefore God (SON), your God (FATHER), anointed you (MADE CHRIST) with the oil of gladness above your companions”; and: “At the beginning, O Lord (SON), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands.”  (Heb 1:5-10, emphasis mine)
The same Son of God was called the Word who was God and the same Son of God who created all things:
  • In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.  (Jn 1:1-3, Amplified Bible)
  • He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him]. (Jn 1:10, AMP)
  • He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  (Col 1:13-17)
The same Son of God who was called the Word who was God was sent to Mary to be born of her and become a human being:
  • But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption. As proof that you are children, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” (Gal 4:4-6)
  • And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. (Jn 1:14, AMP)
The same Son of God who was God that was sent to Mary to be born of her and become a human being originated from eternity because He came out, or begotten, from the bosom of God before the world began:
  • But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you are little to be among the clans of Judah; [yet] out of you shall One come forth for Me Who is to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from of old, from ancient days (eternity). (Micah 5:2, AMP)
  • No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known]. (Jn 1:18, AMP)
  • The LORD says to you, my lord: “Take your throne at my right hand, while I make your enemies your footstool.” The scepter of your sovereign might the LORD will extend from Zion. The LORD says: “Rule over your enemies!  Yours is princely power from the day of your birth.  In holy splendor before the daystar, like the dew I begot you.”  The LORD has sworn and will not waver: “Like Melchizedek you are a priest forever.”  (Ps 110:1-4)
  • For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.  Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.  (Jn 16:27-30, KJV)
The same Son of God who was God that was sent to Mary to be born of her and become a human being is the Immanuel or Emmanuel (God is with us):
  • Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel. (Isa 7:14)
  • It shall pass into Judah, and flood it all throughout: up to the neck it shall reach; It shall spread its wings the full width of your land, Immanuel! (Isa 8:8)
  • Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means “God is with us.”  (Mt 1:20-23)
The same Son of God who was God that was sent to Mary to be born of her and become a human being is the Mighty God:
  • For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace. (Isa 9:6, AMP)
Is the Son of God who was God that was sent to Mary to be born of her and become a human being no longer God in her womb as JC Sanchez and Protestantism at large are pushing?  No. The Son of God who was God that was sent to Mary to be born of her and become a human being remained God even in her womb although He is united with His created Soul and Body because He is God from everlasting to everlasting and He is the same eternally:
  • Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah! (Ps 106:48)
  • Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Heb 13:8)
Colossians 2:9 presented below in its various English translations testifies that God remained God even when infused in His own Soul and Body from His conception in Mary’s womb (cf Lk 1:35):
  • For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (KJ21)
  • for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, (ASV)
  • For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature]. (AMP)
  • All the fullness of deity lives in Christ’s body. (CEB)
  • For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is. (CJB)
  • God lives fully in Christ. (CEV)
  • For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; (DARBY)
  • because in Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity bodily. (DLNT)
  • For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally; (DRA)
  • I say this because all of God lives in Christ fully, even in his life on earth. (ERV)
  • For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (ESV)
  • For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (ESVUK)
  • All of God lives fully in Christ [L For in him all the fullness of deity dwells] ·in a human body [bodily; embodied], (EXB)
  • For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (GNV)
  • All of God lives in Christ’s body, (GW)
  • For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his humanity, (GNT)
  • For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ, (HCSB)
  • because all the essence of deity inhabits him in bodily form. (ISV)
  • Yet it is in him that God gives a full and complete expression of himself (within the physical limits that he set himself in Christ). (PHILLIPS)
  • For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, (JUB)
  • For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (KJV)
  • For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (AKJV)
  • because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily, (LEB)
  • For in Christ there is all of God in a human body; (TLB)
  • Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. (MSG)
  • For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells in bodily form (MOUNCE)
  • Hoti en autos ho pas plērōma ho theotēs katoikeō sōmatikōs, (MOUNCE)
  • All of God lives in Christ’s body, (NOG)
  • For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily, (NABRE)
  • For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, (NASB)
  • All of God lives fully in Christ (even when Christ was on earth), (NCV)
  • For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form, (NET)
  • God’s whole nature is living in Christ in human form. (NIRV)
  • For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, (NIV)
  • For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, (NIVUK)
  • For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; (NKJV)
  • For Christ is not only God-like, He is God in human flesh. (NLV)
  • For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. (NLT)
  • For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (NRSV)
  • For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (NRSVA)
  • For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (NRSVACE)
  • For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (NRSVCE)
  • Because in Moshiach kol melo Elohim (all the plentitude of G-d) finds its bodily maon laShechinah (dwelling place for the Shechinah). (OJB)
  • For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, (RSV)
  • For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, (RSVCE)
  • You see, all that is God, all His fullness, resides in His body. (VOICE)
  • For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, (WEB)
  • Christ has everything that God has. (WE)
  • For in him dwelleth body-like all the fullness of the Godhead. (WYC)
  • because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, (YLT)
Source of Colossians 2:9 in all English translations: Bible Gateway

JC Sanchez and the Protestants are apt to protest in this wise: If the Son of Mary is God in human flesh (cf Col 2:9, New Life Version), then why can’t he work miracles on His own and why did he tire, sleep, hunger, thirst, weep, and die like an ordinary human being? 
Because though the Son of Mary was God in the form of God, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance:
  • Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. (Phil 2:5-8)
Is the Son of God who was God no longer God when He emptied Himself and took the form of a human being?  No. The Son of God who was God remains God even when He emptied Himself and took the form of a human being because the Son of God is the eternal Word who was God, and therefore Spirit, who united or infused Himself with His very own created Soul and Body so He can become wholly a human being that is composed of spirit, soul, and body:
  • May the God of peace himself make you perfectly holy and may you entirely, spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless forthe coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thes 5:23)
  • Because he knew not the one who fashioned him, and breathed into him a quickening soul, and infused a vital spirit. (Wisdom 15:11)
  • The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. (Gen 2:7)
  • For Christ is not only God-like, He is God in human flesh.  (Col 2:9, New Life version)
If the Son of God who was God remains God even when He emptied Himself and took the form of a human being, then why can’t He do nothing on His own and why does God has to work miracles through Him according to these testimonies?
  • You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazorean was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. (Acts 2:22)
  • He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.  For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.”  So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning.  I have much to say about you in condemnation.  But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.”  They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.  So Jesus said (to them), “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me.  The one who sent me is with me.  He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.”  (Jn 8:23-29)
Note Jesus’ statement, “The one who sent me is with me” jibes perfectly with His repeated revelation that the Father is in Him:
  • “But if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” (Jn 10:38)
  • “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.” (Jn 14:10)
  • “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves.” (Jn 14:11)
Jesus’ statement, “The Father is in me” means “God lives fully in Christ (Col 2:9, Contemporary English Version)” which is also in perfect accord with Isaiah 9:6:
  • For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace.
The Son of God Jesus Christ who was God made visible in human flesh can do nothing on His own and God has to work miracles through Him because His Omnipotence was rendered dormant when for a little while He was made lower than the angels He created when he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance:
  • And great and important and weighty, we confess, is the hidden truth (the mystic secret) of godliness. He [God] was made visible in human flesh, justified and vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, [and] taken up in glory. (1 Tm 3:16, AMP)
  • For it was not to angels that he subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. Instead, someone has testified somewhere: “What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him? You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, subjecting all things under his feet.”  In “subjecting” all things (to him), he left nothing not “subject to him.” Yet at present we do not see “all things subject to him,” but we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death, he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,” that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.  (Heb 2:5-9)
  • Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. (Phil 2:5-8)
When the Spirit of Jesus Christ who was God was infused into His Soul and Body, His Almightiness was temporarily suppressed by His earthen body for 33 years only, thus, He can do nothing on His own and God has to work miracles through Him, as it was written:
  • For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns. (Wisdom 9:15)
The corruptible human body is also called tent of flesh or earthen shelter because it was formed out of the clay of the ground:
  • And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. (Jn 1:14, AMP)
  • The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. (Gen 2:7)
THEREFORE, THE CATHOLIC PROFESSION “MARY IS THE MOTHER OF GOD” IS SCRIPTURAL ANY WHICH WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.

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