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Reply to "Did Mary Believe She Was The Mother Of God?"

Hi Vic and Nathan,

 

Vic, you copy/paste from Roman Catholic mantra:

 

Ephrem the Syrian says, "With the Mediator, you are the Mediatrix of the entire world"; and Antipater of Bostra, a father of the Council of Ephesus, wrote about the Blessed Virgin in the fifth century, "Hail, you who acceptably intercede as Mediatrix for mankind" (qtd. in Gambero, Mary and the Fathers).

 

These quotations can be multiplied from the liturgies and theological writings of the day.  The writers’ exalted language shows how highly they thought of Mary’s role as mediator and co-redeemer. This view of Mary as Mediatrix was not a later invention, but rather comes to us from the early Church.

 

Okay, you have shown us what your Roman Catholic controlled writer believed; but, if Mary is truly this "deified' person you claim her to be -- show it to us in the Bible, the Big 66.   If it is not found there, in actual words or by teaching -- IT IS NOT TRUE.   And, Mariology is NOT found there!

 

You tell me, "These quotations can be multiplied from the liturgies and theological writings of the day."

 

I don't doubt that -- for just as the Pope forced Jerome to include the Apocrypha in the Latin Vulgate translation -- could he not force other writers to write only what was needed to keep the Roman Catholic religion alive?

 

But, regardless of what anyone wrote or might write -- we can only rely upon the Bible, all 66 books, when looking for a solid foundation for our theology.   Commentaries and other history books are useful in Bible studies.  But, when push comes to shove -- only the Bible, the Big 66, can be seen as God's Written Word.  And, if we cannot find it there -- it is not Christian doctrine.

 

As you said, enough said!

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

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