Thursday, November 28, 2013

The Atheist

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead. If anyone shall say that Christ passed through the Virgin as through a channel and was not formed in her both in divine and human fashion - divine because without a husband's cooperation, human because conceived in accordance with human law- such a one too is an atheist. If anyone shall say that a man was made, and that afterwards God entered into him- he renders himself liable to damnation.

                                                                            -St. Gregory Nazianzen, Doctor of the Church (+390)