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I have a different view. I think Jesus rose bodily, wounds and all -- and the lack of comment on his bruised condition doesn't trouble me. I'm persuaded by John 2:19-22: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then the Jews said, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this...

Sure. There are lots of differences between the two. And one sameness that sinks your use of the Psalm to demonstrate Mary's sinlessness: BOTH COUNT AS "DWELLING." Consider that just ten verses later He invited Thomas, a sinful human, to touch Him (John 20:27). And anyway, neither His...

John 20:27 recounts the risen Christ inviting Thomas to gather tactile evidence of Christ's physical body. What's up with that?

So where was the body when the tomb was discovered to be empty? Did it melt into thin air? Or was it still walking the planet until Christ's Ascension?

I just did. It's the "same" insofar as it is "dwelling" in both instances. That's the only sameness relevant to whether Psalm 5:4 is or is not supportive of Mary's sinlessness. Can we stop now, please?

We're plowing the same ground again. That's why I am bowing out. The only sameness that matters to this argument is that taking form inside a womb and living among sinful humans both count as "dwelling" -- the first because YOU SAID SO in pointing to Psalm 5:4 as your reason Mary must be...

I would only add that rubbing elbows with the original apostles, and with those who did so, was considered a big credential in the early years of Christianity. For example, Irenaeus mentions that Polycarp was"instructed by the apostles, and conversed with many who had seen the Lord," and that...

Do you have some reason to think the Vatican is behind this, in a single one of these 51 countries? (I say 51, not 52. We should discuss Lebanon separately, where there is no official state religion, there are many Christians, and toleration is the norm. You may end up taking them off your...

I'll let @Augustin56 explain it.

And what about the interstitial period between Pentecost and the publication of the various books of the NT in the latter half of the first century C.E, when oral teaching and oral tradition from the apostles and those they instructed was "all anyone had?" Did all of that oral teaching and...

No. This is total crap.

The OP topic is about banning bibles. Can we stay on it, please?

I agree with all of that. I'm not Roman Catholic, and I don't subscribe to the Immaculate Conception. WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE RCC BANNING BIBLES? Stay on topic please!

As they approach the speed of light, yard sticks shrink and clocks slow down. Do some research.

Sed opinio tantum valet, quod in Bibliis invenitur, ut fons doctrinae, in Bibliis non invenitur.

In my business it is the proponent of a proposition who bears the burden of proof on it. You are the one making the claim that Bibles were banned. You'll have to show me your research. By the way, I remember the Latin Mass very well. Epistles and gospels were nevertheless always read in English.

I was raised Roman Catholic. In America. I was illiterate until 1961 (I was born in 1954, and had picked up reading by age seven). But I never really read the Bible in any disciplined way, although we had one in the house, until much later. What I knew of the Bible was largely from attending...

I think you have missed @Augustin56's point -- which was that if a theological tenet needs to be found in Scripture in order to be considered true, then "Sola Scriptura," being a theological tenet, would need to be found there in order to be considered true. Geographical tenets are not of that...

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”  Romeo and Juliet | Act II, Scene II

Fair point. I would just add that the "Scriptures" that Acts 17:11 tells us the Bereans read were OT Scriptures only. (None of the NT was yet penned with the possible exception of some early Pauline letters that, if copies had made their way to Berea at all, would not yet have achieved the...