Now, wait now. I thought all these protestants favored interpreting the scriptures for themselves....then we find they have people who interpret for them, and they pick and choose which particular person they think is right.
That’s my problem with protestants. They say one thing, and do another. They gainsay tradition, yet have their own. They declare the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist to be false, and make sure of it by creating their own pale imitation. They declare the supremacy of scripture, but use someone else’s translation, without ever knowing if it’s a good translation or not. They rely on someone else to tell them if it’s a good interpretation, but excoriate Catholics who do the same.
Protestantism seems hypocritical to me, frankly, so I cannot trust their individual, supposedly scripturally based definitions of Mary’s role. Which scripture? Who said so? Who interpreted that? What was that person’s training?
One can be unconsciously self-contradictory without descending to hypocrisy, I think.