OUR FRIEND APOLOGIST AQUINO BAYANI REFUTES THE ILLOGICAL SYLLOGISMS OF RODIMUS, alias, GERRY SOLIMAN

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Aquino Bayani • 9 hours ago

Confuting the refutation of Gerry Soliman on the Mother of God Syllogisms:
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“Soliman said: Roman Catholics who defend the doctrine of Mary as the Mother of God use a few syllogism (a form of deductive argument with premises and a conclusion) that would appear logical and make their belief valid.”

Bayani: Soliman is dead wrong. Mary is the Mother of God and it was first and foremost the truth of God from eternity, until a lunatic by the name of Nestorious muddled it at the prompting of Satan. That’s when the Catholic Church had to act and defend the truth of God and translate it into a dogma for all God-fearing men to keep, observe and defend. Nestorius became the god-hero of Protestantism in distorting the truth of God that Mary is the Mother of God.

“Soliman said: In this article, we shall be examining each syllogism and provide the appropriate rebuttals.

1. Mary is the mother of Jesus. Jesus is God. Therefore, Mary is the Mother of God.

Catholic Answers even claimed:

There is no way out of this logical syllogism, the valid form of which has been recognized by classical logicians since before the time of Christ.

I am wondering who are the logicians they are talking about. You see, if we follow their argumentation we could end up with this kind of syllogism:

2. Mary is the Mother of God. God is a Trinity. The Trinity is composed of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Therefore, Mary is the Mother of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

There is a way out after all. If the Roman Catholics limit themselves to their syllogism (1.) they would be forced accept the argument which we provided (2.). However, the Roman Catholics are not without defense. They point to the 495th paragraph of their Catechism to clarify that Mary is only the Mother of the second person of the Trinity:

Called in the Gospels “the mother of Jesus”, Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as “the mother of my Lord”. In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father’s eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly “Mother of God” (Theotokos).

Since Christ is the only one who was incarnated, it follows that Mary cannot be the mother of the Father and Holy Spirit. It would appear now that it should be understood as whenever they call Mary as the Mother of God, they are only referring to the second person of the Trinity.”

Bayani: Soliman is dead wrong again. In John 1:1-2, there are two Gods: the Word who is Christ and God who is the Father. In Hebrews 1:8-9, there are again two Gods: the Son who is Christ and God who is the Father of the Son. Are there two Gods then? No, there is only one God because the Father and the Son are one God (Jn 10:30). And because God is Spirit (Jn 4:24), it follows that the Father and Son are one Spirit.

To emphasize the oneness of Father and Son, Jesus taught us that in order to attain eternal life, He said, “That they should know you.” Who is the “you?” “You” is singular but the “you” Jesus was referring to are the Father and the Son: “the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ (Jn 17:3).”

The apostle John who was privy to the oneness of Father and Son, declared affirmatively, without demur, that the Son Jesus Christ is the true God and eternal life (1 Jn 5:20), that is, in the light of the unity of the Father and the Son.

“Soliman wrongly said: Since Christ is the only one who was incarnated, it follows that Mary cannot be the mother of the Father and Holy Spirit. It would appear now that it should be understood as whenever they call Mary as the Mother of God, they are only referring to the second person of the Trinity.”

The second person of the Trinity is the Son or Christ, and the Father and the Son are one. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father (Jn 15:26), and since the Father and the Son are one, then the Holy Spirit proceeds also from the Son. Therefore, the Son, the Father, and the Holy Spirit are one in Christ, that is, in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily (Col 1:19, 2:9). The Holy Trinity aka the fullness of God dwells in Jesus Christ, thus, He is the Triune God (Eph 3:19). True and faithful Christians who love Jesus Christ and the Mother of God share the fullness of God in the Triune God Lord Jesus Christ (Eph 3:19; Col 2:9).

Thus, to say that Mary is the Mother of God the Son only is not entirely accurate. The precise truth of God is this: Mary is the Mother of Christ, the Triune God! In short, MARY IS THE MOTHER OF GOD!

Therefore, the two irrefutable syllogisms above which Soliman failed miserably to debunk are really the truth of God:

By explication:

Mary is the mother of Jesus. Jesus is God. Therefore, Mary is the Mother of God.

And by implication:

Mary is the Mother of God. God is a Trinity. The Trinity is composed of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Therefore, Mary is the Mother of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – that is, in Jesus Christ, the Triune God!

“Soliman said: They also have an analogy to better understand their syllogism. It goes something like this:

George W. Bush is the US President
Barbara Bush is the mother of George W. Bush
Therefore, Barbara Bush is the mother of the US President

While the above argument is a valid one, its similarity to the Roman Catholic syllogism (1.) are miles apart. In order for the Catholic syllogism to be valid, they have to prove that Mary is also the mother of the divine aspects of Christ.”

Bayani: The last sentence of Soliman is the most idiotic statement I ever heard from a self-claimed apologist and an unqualified resource person of Protestants at that.

Ordinary human beings are composed of created spirits, created souls and created bodies (1 Thes 5:23). Ordinarily, human bodies are formed from the copulation of two human partners of opposite sexes:

“I too am a mortal man, the same as all the rest, and a descendant of the first man formed on earth. And in my mother’s womb I was molded into flesh in a ten-months’
period-body and blood, from the seed of man, and the pleasure that accompanies marriage. (Wis 7:1-2)”

Spirits and souls are direct creation of the Father through Christ (Col 1:16; Heb 1:2) which He breathed into human bodies:

“Because he knew not the one who fashioned him, and breathed into him a quickening soul, and infused a vital spirit. (Wis 15:11)”

Therefore, human bodies were formed from the union of the human parents – aka the cocreator of God, while spirits and souls were created by God which He breathed into the human bodies to enliven them, otherwise they remained lifeless.

In the case of the Lord Jesus Christ, His Holy Body was formed by the Holy Spirit from the seed of Mary (Gen 3:15; Heb 10:5), and His Spirit is the Spirit of God, ie, God Himself (Is 42:1; Mt 12:18; Jn 1:1), and His Divine Soul is the God-Hero who tasted death for our sins (Is 9:5; Heb 2:9; 1 Cor 15:3). At the moment of His death, the Lord Jesus Christ returned to God His Spirit of God (Lk 23:46; Jn 19:30) and His Divine Soul that assumed all the sins of the world and tasted death was left in His lifeless body and dragged into the place of the dead (Job 33:22).

Thus, the humanity of Jesus Christ is His Holy Body, while His divinities are His Spirit of God and His Divine Soul.

Going back to the forming of Solomon in Bathsheba’s womb, only his humanity, that is, his flesh (body and blood) was formed in his mother’s womb (Wis 7:1-2). Solomon’s spiritual components were created spirit and created soul breathed by God into his body, and Bathsheba has nothing to do with it, but still, she was rightly called the mother of Solomon (1 Kgs 2:13).

In the same way, only the humanity of Jesus Christ was formed in his mother’s womb, and His Divinities (uncreated Spirit of God and Divine Soul) were breathed by God into His Holy Body, and Mary has nothing to do with it, but still, she was rightly called the Mother of the Lord (Lk 1:43).

Of course, the Lord mothered by Mary is Jesus Christ – the Triune God (Ex 3:15; Rev 1:8).

“Soliman said: Protestants believe that Mary is the mother of the human aspects of Christ only.”

Bayani: As already explained above, the human aspect of Christ is His Holy Body only. Now, if Protestants believe that Mary is the mother of the human aspects of Christ only, as Soliman proclaimed, then the fake Mary of the Protestants has conceived, gestated and delivered a fake still born Christ because a body without a spirit is dead (Jms 2:26)!

Conclusion:

Therefore, it has always been the truth of God from eternity that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the true Mother of God (Rev 12:1-2)!

The false teaching of Protestants that opposed Mary is the Mother of God is a diabolical doctrine invented and spread by Satan that serves as his bait for perdition which the Protestants as a whole gobbled up hook, line and sinker!

May God rebuke all Protestants this Lenten Season 2013 (Year of Faith) that they may see His true Light in the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, which is the household of God, the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth (1 Tm 3:15).

Amen.

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