[fwdude]

Sorry, but Catholic doctrine and practice contradicts scripture in numerous ways. Case in point: "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (including Mary.)

I'll stick with scripture, thanks.

[paladinan]

fwdud wrote:

Sorry, but Catholic doctrine and practice contradicts scripture in numerous ways. Case in point: "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (including Mary.)

...and including unborn children, yes? And infants, and the mentally handicapped who don't have the use of reason? All of them have sinned, and recognizably so (and that if they die before making a sincere profession of faith, they'll go to hell)? Surely you see that this is nonsense!

Yes, it's a general rule that all have sinned (in the sense that man, in general, sins while living his life... and in the sense that man, in general, inherits Original Sin from Adam, our first earthly father). No, one can't run off with a simplistic, ultra-literal reading of it and "disprove" the sinlessness of the Blessed Virgin Mary... any more than you can run off with the same sort of simplistic reading of Romans 3:10 ("there is none righteous, no, not one"--especially in the face of Genesis 6:9 [Noah = righteous and blameless], Job 1:1 [Job = righteous and blameless], and the like).

I'll stick with scripture, thanks.

By all means, stick with Scripture. Just don't stick to "sola Scriptura"! (Good heavens, man... the Bible can't even tell you what books belong in the Bible in the FIRST place! Why would you cling to such unbiblical, man-made, Luther-made nonsense in the first place?)