Mary – Mother of God – What a wonderful title for such a humble person – the humble handmade of the Lord. Certain groups of people cannot accept it as they put forward many reasons. They say that Mary did not carry God in her womb, but only carried Christ’s human nature. A woman does not give birth of human nature alone but she gives birth to a whole person. Mary thus gave birth to the person of Jesus Christ and the person she gave birth to was God. Since Mary is Jesus ‘s mother, it must be concluded that she is the Mother God for Jesus Christ in God in the flesh (2 Jn 7) Even Protestant Reformers recognized Mary’s divine maternity. Although Mary is the mother of God, she is not his mother in the sense that she is older than God or the source of her son’s divinity.

Irenaeus
“The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God” (Against Heresies, 5:19:1 [A.D. 189])

Peter of Alexandira
“They came to the church of the most blessed Mother of God, and ever-virgin Mary, which, as we began to say, he had constructed in the western quarter, in a suburb, for a cemetery of the martyrs” (The Genuine Acts of Peter of Alexandia [A.D. 305])

“We acknowledge the resurrection of the dead, of which Jesus Christ our Lord became the firstling; he bore a body not in appearance but in truth derived from Mary the Mother of God” (Letter to all non-Egyptian Bishops 12 [A.D. 324])

Ambrose of Milan
“The first thing which kindles ardor in learning is the greatness of the teacher. What is greater than the Mother of God? What more glorious than she whom Glory itself chose?” (The Virgins 2:2[7] [A.D. 377])