Full of grace is what catholics everywhere shoehorn into that word. Even the pope that proclaimed her ic;
Ineffabilis Deus- Pius #9 1854
"When the Fathers and writers of the Church meditated on the fact that the most Blessed Virgin was, in the name and by order of God himself, proclaimed full of grace by the Angel Gabriel..."
And? Nada about any immaculate conception or being sinless. None of the lexicons say that. And will you be prepared to latch on to the perfect past participle as unbending as you are now when it refers to our salvation? Or do you pick and choose what doctrines you choose to believe so blindly?
Jerome was a scholar. Youre telling us that he didn't know of any word in latin that translates to 'favor' or 'favored'? As much as i like Jerome, he goofed more than once. He also inserted penance into the latin vulgate. Something the rcc has taken and ran with.
There is no new ark of the covenant. If you knew and understood what the old ark meant, you would be introducing heresy. But i don't think catholics think that far ahead. If they can elevate mary to dizzying heights, who cares what the actual title means?
It is dizzying to those in the doctrine of devils for sure. Still.... no evidence against her not being (THE NEW ARK , you must not have read the Psalms). You do know arguments against or for must be represented by rational and empirical evidence . Of which NONE, has been presented by you. Your lowliest opinion has been , and it only verifies evidence of your willfully blind stupidity. Nothing to the contrary I am afraid.
As a logical person, I approach the foundation of the Intelligent Designer, as meekly as possible, knowing I am not dealing with a fool and would NEVER insult His intelligence . See, I look at the rational language of His Word and view the empirical evidence held within that would support any man's (of any denomination) claims. Without bias, I first take it from his point of view and ask......does this scripture support the claims presented? There should be Empirical evidence, which is information that verifies the
truth which accurately corresponds to reality or the evidence will show its falsity .
However , people like you do not look at the evidence that one points to, you look for some other evidence which will support your claim.
THE KICKER.....what you actually pull from, is unrelated text, that has nothing to do with the subject being discussed. Example: Someone will be upholding belief in
Faith and Works as One. People like you then go find a scripture which speaks of us not being saved by works or our own merit, but by Grace. When that has NOTHING to do with the
Faith and Works being presented. Clearly, any work done outside of Christ can not save anyone.
That is why other religions are not the way. But once one says YES to Mercy (Christ) and is saved by Grace, we then have Faith and Works which cannot be separated , they are one, that means UNITED in Christ. The works others do outside of Christ are not united in Him because they are not in Faith in HIM. They have no FAITH and their works are separated from Him thus they are .
So, people like you misapply one work based scripture against one that is about faith and works as one. GET IT? You actually try to divide the Word . Another example with empirical evidence which is always based in rational judgement: When one esteems and venerates a saint , people like you put the scripture " There is ONE MEDIATOR between men and God and that is Jesus Christ" when Christ also says: " As the Father has sent me I send you, and breathing on them He said , receive the Holy Spirit, who sins you forgive , they are forgiven, whose sins you do not forgive they are not forgiven. Go! baptizing in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, making disciples of all nations , teaching them all I commanded you". Also: "outdo yourselves in honoring one another" and/or "esteem those highly who labor among you and are OVER you. "AS" means in like manner, not replacing, but making MEDIATORS between men and Christ to bring men to their salvation. And esteeming those who have labored for us and are over us is a command , that according to scripture alone!
but as I said you will ignore that evidence and focus on what you want to see. You and the like are all simply pretext with no Context therefore have no substantive value.