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 In what way does the denial of the title Theotokos to the Virgin destroy the Gospel of salvation?

            Denying the Mother of God the title Theotokos is tantamount to denying that she bore the Word of God made flesh, a single and undivided Christ Who is at once both fully God and fully man. It is to suggest that Mary bore nothing more than a demigod at best. The textbook goes on to note that this denial divides the Incarnate Christ into two, breaking down the bridge between God and man and erecting within Christ's Person a middle wall of partition. Consequently, not only titles of devotion were involved at Ephesus, but the very message of salvation.

            Of further note, relating to questions 6-13, the Third Ecumenical Council condemned Nestorianism and the notion that there were two persons existing side by side in Christ — God and a man. It affirmed that Christ's humanity and Divinity were united in One Person (hy-postatic union), and that the Mother of Jesus would therefore have to be the Mother of God, the Theotokos.