Does calling Mary ‘the Mother of God’ mean she was there before God?

🔥The question: “If she gave birth to God, didn't Mary make God, or isn't she higher than he is?”

🛡️The Church's answer: ‘Mother of God’ does not mean that Mary is the beginning of the Triune God or that she produced the divine nature. The eternal Son is begotten of the Father and has no beginning. But when the time was full, that same Son took a true human nature from Mary and was born, and the one Mary bore is not two persons with divinity and humanity split between them; he is the one Jesus Christ. Because that one person is true God, the Church calls Mary ‘the Mother of God’ — Theotokos, the God-bearer.

The center of the title is not making Mary a goddess but confessing Jesus whole. If you call her the mother of only the human body of Jesus, you risk splitting his divinity and his humanity into two different persons. The Council of Ephesus defended that faith not first of all to say how great Mary is, but to guard the truth that the Jesus born of her was, from the beginning, one person who is true God and true man.

🧐If they press further: “Then is Mary a person of God too?” — No. Mary is a human being who received grace; she is a creature. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit alone are the one God, and Mary received the singular grace and mission of becoming the mother of the Son.

✨In one sentence: “‘Mother of God’ doesn't say that Mary made God; it confesses that the Jesus born of her is one person, true God and true man.”