[metmom]

Yet - the parallel between Eve offering the fruit and then Mary cancelling her out by saying yes is there. It just is. Why is this a bad thing?

Because there is no Scriptural support for it and to teach it as fact as if there is, is wrong.

It's simply a justification for the elevating or Mary to a position that she does not hold.

Anyone can make up anything and find some Scripture to support it somehow, and that is not how church teaching and doctrine should be handled.

It should be based on facts presented clearly in Scripture. Making a connection that is not acknowledged IN Scripture by the those inspired to write it, is running into error. That's how false teachings get started and are promulgated.

Mary was nothing more than the virgin chosen to carry the Christ child. She plays no other role in the redemption of mankind.

[Judith Anne]

It appears to bother you and other non-Catholics that we venerate Mary. Look at your statement:

Mary was nothing more than the virgin chosen to carry the Christ child. She plays no other role in the redemption of mankind. NO OTHER ROLE!!!!??? She wss chosen, she agreed. Where does the "nothing more" come from? Do sll generations call any other woman "blessed"? No. Why do you seem compelled to put her down like that "Nothing More." God did not ask any other woman to bear His only begotten son. That makes Mary special. Not you.You are nothing more than one of the billions of women who were NOT chosen to bear the only begotten Son of God. All generations will not call you blessed. That doesn't bother me, I venerate Mary. All your hate for Catholics doesn't make you anything but ordinary, and not blessed.

[Judith Anne]

It appears to bother you and other non-Catholics that we venerate Mary. Look at your statement:

Mary was nothing more than the virgin chosen to carry the Christ child. She plays no other role in the redemption of mankind.

NO OTHER ROLE!!!!??? She wss chosen, she agreed. Where does the "nothing more" come from? Do sll generations call any other woman "blessed"? No. Why do you seem compelled to put her down like that "Nothing More." God did not ask any other woman to bear His only begotten son. That makes Mary special. Not you.You are nothing more than one of the billions of women who were NOT chosen to bear the only begotten Son of God. All generations will not call you blessed. That doesn't bother me, I venerate Mary. All your hate for Catholics doesn't make you anything but ordinary, and not blessed.

[stonehouse01]

No scriptual support? How about Genesis 3:6 and then how about Luke 1:30 for starters? It is scripture.