# What Do Catholics Really Believe About Mary—and Should Protestants Care? ONESTOP THREAD **URL:** \ **Category:** Theology\ **Tags:** featured\ **Created:** [May 19, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/what-do-catholics-really-believe-about-mary-and-should-protestants-care-onestop-thread/8626 "2025-05-19T23:46:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 79
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No brother– **Jesus was not created when the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary** **The Scriptures teach that the Son preexisted His incarnation.** **He was with God and was God before the world began** – Joh\_1:1–3, Joh\_8:58 cf. Exo\_3:14, Col\_1:15–17, Heb\_1:2–3. The flesh (humanity) began at the conception (Mat\_1:20; Luk\_1:35), but **the Person who took on that flesh was eternally begotten–not created.** • Mary is rightly called the “Mother of God” in the sense of the Theotokos (God-bearer) While Mary did not originate the divine nature of Christ, she did bear the Person of Jesus Christ, who is fully God and fully man – Isa\_7:14; Luk\_1:43 **(“the mother of my Lord”**); Mat\_1:23; Joh\_1:14; Gal\_4:4. _Denying this can lead to the Nestorian error of separating Christ’s divine and human natures into two persons._ • Jesus is not merely ‘the flesh that robed the Spirit’ The Son is not just a human shell for a divine spirit. Scripture affirms the full hypostatic union: God the Son took on human nature and became flesh – Joh\_1:14; Php\_2:6–8; Heb\_2:14–17. Col\_2:9 – “For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” • Yes, Jesus truly died, but not as God ceasing to exist The divine nature did not die, but the Person of Christ did truly die in His human nature – Mat\_27:50; Luk\_23:46; Rom\_5:6–8; 1Co\_15:3. The divine Logos did not perish, but He experienced death through His assumed humanity – Heb\_2:9, Heb\_10:5, Act\_20:28 (“God purchased with His own blood”). • Jesus rose bodily, not just ‘God rose again’ The resurrection is of the same body that died – Luk\_24:39–43; Joh\_20:27; Joh\_2:19–21; Rom\_6:9; Act\_2:24, Act\_17:31; 1Co\_15:3–4, 1Co\_15:20–22. God bless. Johann. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/what-do-catholics-really-believe-about-mary-and-should-protestants-care-onestop-thread/8626)._