[annalex]

you'll list all your traditions, ask me to prove they are explicitly unbiblical, and then, if I can't to your satisfaction, declare them as all true because your hierarchy says so.

Never happened. When you find something not in the Bible, e.g. veneration of saints, it does not make it unbiblical, it makes it not part of the written canon of scripture.

[Forest Keeper]

Me: "you'll list all your traditions, ask me to prove they are explicitly unbiblical, and then, if I can't to your satisfaction, declare them as all true because your hierarchy says so."

Never happened. When you find something not in the Bible, e.g. veneration of saints, it does not make it unbiblical, it makes it not part of the written canon of scripture.

OK, I accept the challenge. :) I've never argued on this before, but I'll give it a shot. Let's consider the Immaculate Conception, and that Mary was sinless. How do you explain Romans 3:23 - "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"? Of course we both agree that Jesus gets a pass on this, but from only a Biblical standpoint why does Mary, since she isn't God?