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According to this doctrine of the Council, Jesus is equally God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one in divine being and substance of divinity and Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit as one God of three divine Persons. He is therefore God before his incarnation, God at the moment of his incarnation, and God in the womb of Mary, his true mother. There was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that she was not his mother, and there was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that he was not God and man. This title ''Theotokos'' is a doctrinal defense of the divinity of Jesus the incarnate Son of God and Son of Mary, God and man, the two natures of the one Person of Christ.

According to this doctrine of the Council, Jesus is equally God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one in divine being and substance of divinity and Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit as one God of three divine Persons. He is therefore God before his incarnation, God at the moment of his incarnation, and God in the womb of Mary, his true mother. There was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that she was not his mother, and there was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that he was not God and man. This title ''Theotokos'' is a doctrinal defense of the divinity of Jesus the incarnate Son of God and Son of Mary, God and man, the two natures of the one Person of Christ.

Some persons assume wrongly that all mothers precede the existence of their sons<ref>The same notion mockingly proposed by critics of [[Theism]], and especially of Christianity, is that "if all things that exist have been created, then who created God?". They ignore the Judeo-Christian doctrine that God is specifically the One "Uncreated" reality, without beginning, without end, eternally self-existing, self-subsisting, Who created all other existing things visible and invisible, the heaven and the earth, and from Whom all created things come, and are held in existence, without Whom they all would cease to exist.</ref>, and that the title "Mother of God" [[blasphemy|blasphemously]] declares the false doctrine that she existed before Almighty God, as [[Paganism|pagans]] in various parts of the ancient world (and in some places even today) believed in a Mother of the Gods, and is adduced as proof that a [[Great Apostasy]] was committed by the Church and that the doctrines of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches are pagan. This grossly distorted misrepresentation of the meaning of the title of Mary as ''Theotokos'' is not the true teaching of Christianity, and in particular is not the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic and Orthodox Church.

Some persons assume wrongly that all mothers precede the existence of their sons<ref>The same notion mockingly proposed by critics of [[Theism]], and especially of Christianity, is that "if all things that exist have been created, then who created God?". They ignore the Judeo-Christian doctrine that God is specifically the One "Uncreated" reality, without beginning, without end, eternally self-existing and self-subsisting, Who created all other existing things visible and invisible, the heaven and the earth, from Whom all created things come, and are held in existence, and without Whom they all would cease to exist.</ref>, and that the title "Mother of God" [[blasphemy|blasphemously]] declares the false doctrine that she existed before Almighty God, as [[Paganism|pagans]] in various parts of the ancient world (and in some places even today) believed in a Mother of the Gods, and is adduced as proof that a [[Great Apostasy]] was committed by the Church and that the doctrines of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches are pagan. This grossly distorted misrepresentation of the meaning of the title of Mary as ''Theotokos'' is not the true teaching of Christianity, and in particular is not the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic and Orthodox Church.

Protestant Christian [[Evangelical Christians|Evangelicals]] and [[Fundamentalism|Fundamentalists]] who reject the doctrine that Mary is the mother of God, are not aware that their rejection of this doctrine implicitly denies the eternal divinity of Jesus from the moment of his incarnation. With Nestorius they prefer to regard her as the mother of his humanity only and not mother of him who is God. According to Acts 20:28, the human blood of Jesus is the "blood of God":

Protestant Christian [[Evangelical Christians|Evangelicals]] and [[Fundamentalism|Fundamentalists]] who reject the doctrine that Mary is the mother of God, are not aware that their rejection of this doctrine implicitly denies the eternal divinity of Jesus from the moment of his incarnation. With Nestorius they prefer to regard her as the mother of his humanity only and not mother of him who is God. According to Acts 20:28, the human blood of Jesus is the "blood of God":