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I'm sure BreadofLife can respond to your rant sufficiently on his own, but I have a few comments. What does this have to do with the Ark of the Covenant? Mary as an obstacle to Jesus is a false dishonest anti-Catholic myth. I have a whole thread on the topic. Do you find "Do whatever He...

In Mark 10:18, Jesus is referring to Himself as God, the source of all goodness. It doesn't mean nobody can be holy. The reason we honor Mary is because God honored her first. Why is this biblical truth is so disturbing for some?

There are no misinterpretations of scripture because I didn't do any interpreting. Chapter and verses are provided so anyone can compare the comments with the verse. All the verses are straight forward. Yes, please, I have no idea what you are taking about. He certainly was a scandal, and the...

It says"your tradition", the ones they made up to escape responsibility to their parents. There are good Traditions from the Apostles, and bad traditions we are to avoid. You think this verse and Col. 2:22 means that all traditions are bad. This attitude of yours is unbiblical. Without (good)...

He is mentioned in the diagram under "Sacred Tradition". God does not drop doctrines from the sky. He guides "men" to formulate them like He used "men" to put the Bible together, like he guided "men" to defend the Trinity against heretics. The biblical rule of faith is explained in the diagram...

WRONG WRONG. You have a stubborn false perception of Catholic Sacred Tradition, as shown by your anti-Catholic link below (known to cause brain damage). Without Catholic Sacred Tradition, we would have no Bible. The Authority of Scripture is a Tradition. The Anointing of the Sick is a...

The Jews, who rejected the whole NT, didn't have the authority to tell Christians what books belong in the Bible, and Martin Luther didn't have the authority to eject 7 books. No one ever claimed the early church fathers were inspired, you pulled that one out of your ear. If you like your skinny...

Does Jesus build junk? The Bible repeatedly teaches that the Church is indefectible; therefore, the hypothetical of rejecting the (one true, historic) Church, as supposedly going against the Bible, is impossible according to the Bible. It is not a situation that would ever come up, because of...

the Bible doesn’t pit the divine call directly from God, against Church authority, as you do. You do it because it is Protestant man-made tradition to do so. That has nothing to do with infallibility. Paul made arrangements so his immediate needs would be looked after, without being a burden on...

What? Do you mean God doesn't send an archangel to each individual female believer to honor them equally? (That's absurdum nauseum, a literary device.) You weren't quoting scripture, but the meaning is strongly inferred in Scripture. "blessed are you among women" doesn't require a Ph.D. in...

Good post. John 2:4 fails as a standard Protestant "gotcha" verse because they apply a literal interpretation to a Hebrew idiom. Some Bible translations make the same mistake. It means deference to authority as your examples clearly show. This is not the only place in Scripture where Mary...

Maybe the error is mine. The term "above women" still doesn't elevate Mary beyond being a human being. It's semantics and I regret stepping into it.

You’re trying to set the Bible against the Church, which is typical Protestant methodology, and ultra-unbiblical. The Bible never does that. I’ve already given the example of the Jerusalem Council, which plainly shows the infallibility of the Church. The Bible repeatedly teaches that the Church...

I'm glad you brought that up. It is incorrect to regard St. Paul as some kind of spiritual “lone ranger,” on his own with no particular ecclesiastical allegiance, since he was commissioned by Jesus Himself as an Apostle. In his very conversion experience, Jesus informed Paul that he would be...

The Protestant obsession with Mary continues... Catholics agree with Protestants that Scripture is a "standard of truth" — even the preeminent one — but not in a sense that rules out the binding authority of authentic apostolic Tradition and the Church. The Bible doesn't teach that. Catholics...

None of your quotes have anything to do with intercession or subordinate mediator-ship. Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Define "temple". Was Mary's womb a temple where the Lord dwelt...

The question is so stupid it doesn't deserve an answer.

I don't create non-sequitur fallacies like this one. google definition: a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.

Interaction with the book that I believe is the best Protestant critique of Catholicism in our times: Roman Catholics and Evangelicals: Agreements and Differences, by Norman L. Geisler and Ralph E. Mackenzie (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1995).] Matthew 12:31-32 The Catholic argues...