This heresy can be blamed on Rome Herself. Her veneration of Mary is extra biblical and thus heretical in its own right. They started it; it’s their job to correct it.
Oh really? How so?
Her veneration of Mary is extra biblical ...
So is going to church on Sunday instead of Saturday. Does that make it wrong?
... and thus heretical in its own right.
Guess so, according to your logic. I respectfully disagree.
They started it; it’s their job to correct it.
As far as the Vatican is concerned, there's nothing to correct. The case you make is less than convincing.
But for church tradition you would never be able to establish the NT Canon.
So is Luther's novel teaching of "the Bible Alone."
Why is his extra-Biblical teaching acceptable, while the teaching of Christ's Church is not?
Besides, the Bible doesn't reject extra-scriptural Apostolic teaching, the Bible commends it.
2 Thessalonians 2:15So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
Finally, the Bible itself indicates the fact that Mary enjoys an exalted position in heaven.
Revelation 12:1A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.
My thought exactly. Well said.
Some have gone overboard, to be sure, but they did that on their own, out of a sense of piety.