You may THINK you are only dissing the Catholic Church Mary, but that is not the way you come across and not the way I took it. You used the Mother of Jesus as your fob to ridicule the Catholic concept of His Mother. Pleading ignorance is not really convincing, especially from one as intelligent and scholarly on the Bible. As your friend I’m asking you to knock it off.
Who ELSE would I use??
Pleading ignorance is not really convincing, especially from one as intelligent and scholarly on the Bible.
I have?
I'm pleading PURPOSE.
Catholicism has used the Mother of Jesus as the starting point to create the Catholic concept of His Mother: a blatantly inaccurate picture.
All the "she's not portrayed that way in the BIBLE" doesn't seem to penetrate the thick layer of Roman indoctrination that Catholics cling to; so I resort to a ball bat to get their attention.
As you've seen; many heads explode when alternative, ACCURATE descriptions of the woman Rome built are used.
I just find it strange that a Protestant would want me to QUIT pointing this out.