I never claimed infallibility, unlike the Roman Catholics. But, in the exchange of ideas, the statement that Protestant scholars agree with Catholic teachings is pure bunk!
I am not "reformed". I am a Christian, who follows the direction of God's Holy Spirit, as Jesus promised. The Roman Catholics claim to be the arbiters of the truth, but Jesus promised to guide us to all Truth. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
I will repeat the last part of my post and allow you to explain the meaning of what is is... and you need to reply with Scripture, not just some random opinion! What I posted was demonstrating just one of the errors in Roman Catholic teachings. It doesn't take scholarship. It just requires one to read and understand. The Roman Catholic cult places their fictitious mary apparition as equal to God!
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I take this one (from Elsie's long, but certainly not complete, list of Roman Catholic error and heresy) passage to contrast with what Scripture details:
...in the words of St. Ambrose, "Open to us, O Mary, the gates of paradise, since Thou hast its keys." "Aperi nobis, O Virgo coelum, cujus claves habes." Nay more, the Church says, that "Thou art its gate."
But, contrary to Roman Catholic teaching, Jesus says:
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
As I indicated at the beginning of the last paragraph of my previous post, I decline your invitation to theological dispute. I will leave it to others more knowledgeable and more charitable than I to take up that task.
You have ignored the essence of my post which was a simple request for civility in discourse and to refrain from calling those who disagree with you "liars" simply because they disagree with you. I do not imagine for a moment that you are a "liar" because you disagree with Catholicism. If you are not willing to extend an analogous courtesy, so be it. I am certainly not going to engage you in some unseemly theological debate as though it were necessary to prove my point.
Of course it is! When they agree with Catholic teachings, they become Catholics!
But nobody said that "Protestant scholars agree with Catholic teachings" tout court. I suppose you're talking about what I said here:
"None of this is disputed by Protestant Scripture scholars, who are well aware of the Bible’s broad semantic range of 'brother'."
Re-reading this, I am sure you can see I was writing about "Protestant Scripture scholars" who do not "dispute" the "Bible's broad semantic range of 'brother'."
My topic was not Protestant agreement with Catholic teachings, but Protestant awareness of Scriptural semantics.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify that.