You posted to yourself, which is fitting as you again assert that we are acting out of prejudice, yet it is you who reject the majority of RC authorities who have no problem seeing the women as the church (Israel was the people of God first), while your interpretation has no more official authority than that of another lay RC apologist.
You are also placing undo emphasis on the word “woman,” which John also used to refer to other women, including the Samaritan women, (Jn. 4:21) and the woman caught in adultery (Jn. 8:10), and Mary Magdalene (Jn. 20:15) and the adulterous women of Rev. 17.Which is unlikely to be an individual.
“You posted to yourself, which is fitting as you again assert that we are acting out of prejudice, yet it is you who reject the majority of RC authorities who have no problem seeing the women as the church (Israel was the people of God first), while your interpretation has no more official authority than that of another lay RC apologist.
You are also placing undo emphasis on the word “woman,” which John also used to refer to other women, including the Samaritan women, (Jn. 4:21) and the woman caught in adultery (Jn. 8:10), and Mary Magdalene (Jn. 20:15) and the adulterous women of Rev. 17.Which is unlikely to be an individual.”
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Okay, I should of typed To: All. So snippy daniel.
You are biased, the Church teaches it is Mary above other meanings which can be the Church but the Church is secondary according to your “the majority of RC authorities.” Actually, it’s all of them. Why are you supporting in your words, the “RC authorities” as you say on this subject when you reject Catholicism and the Real presence? What happened to their authority (Apostolic authority) in regards to the Eucharist?
And your very weak, it is weak, argument of too much importance on the word “woman”...stick to the subject and verses, the “woman” in Genesis 3:15 and the “woman” in Revelation 12. Count how many times “woman” is written in Revelation 12. I believe it is eight times.
It was an “individual” who brought forth an individual, the “man child”, Jesus Christ. It wasn’t the Church or the nation of Israel so it is “likely” the “woman” is Mary.
This is why no will discuss Revelation 12:13 or reply to
why Our Lord keeps addressing Mary as the “woman.”
You have got to come to the truth, Mary is Queen of Heaven
and earth, the reason the description of the “woman” in Revelation 12:1 sounds royal.
It wasn’t you specifically who rejected Mary, it was some
of the men who rejected the Church in the 16th century and after.
4th time I ask about Revelation 12:13.