“Tim Staples demonstrates that these truths are taught in Scripture. They are foreshadowed in the Old Testament, and the Old Testament passages are cited by the New Testament authors.”
No doubt, as a Catholic who MUST believe what your denomination teaches about Mary, he sees it everywhere.
Frankly, I see horses and people’s faces in clouds. The difference between Tim Staples and I is that I know they are not really there. It just appears to my eye that they are there because of my familiarity with the idea. But they are not real horses and faces friend. They are clouds which I imposed my idea upon as Tim does with the Scriptures.
“Since you have not read Staples’s book, you can assert all you want that he is mistaken, but you have no credibility.”
First, I don’t need to be judged as having a shred of credibility by you. Why would I?
I have the inspired Word of God. I’ve studied it for decades, in English. In Greek. In Hebrew. I’ve outlined the whole thing, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book. I’ve taught through vast portions verse by verse. I’ve translated portions.
The truth comes from Scripture, not from a book by a guy who is reading Marian Faces into Scripture that didn’t arise until syncretic paganism was incorporated into the Imperial Roman version of Christianity.
To spot a counterfeit, you only need to know the original well.
I wish you well Arthur.
You can keep repeating the faces-in-the-clouds metaphor all you want, but unless you cite the SPECIFIC Scripture passages Staples discusses, and show EXACTLY HOW he is misinterpreting them, you are merely making gratuitous assertions.
And the principle is: What is gratuitously asserted may be gratuitously denied.
Here is where you can get the book you are afraid to read: