Mary: the Messiah’s Mother

451.54 - 485.248 R.C. Sproul

But when the church made that confession, the church was not saying by any means anything so crass as to suggest that Jesus derived His divine nature from Mary. But really what the church was saying by that title, Theotokos, mother of God, was that Mary was the woman who bore a son, which son was truly the son of God. And that the church certainly affirmed that Christ had a human nature.