[Campion]

So, according to catholic.com, "Mary" is the "New Eve". In the same way that "Jesus" is the "New Adam". Sheesh.

They're merely reporting what the Fathers said. St. Irenaeus of Lyons wrote, around AD 180:

"Consequently, then, Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying: "Behold, O Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your word." Eve, however, was disobedient; and when yet a virgin, she did not obey.... having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for herself and for the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless still a virgin, being obedient, was made the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.... Thus, the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith."

St. Irenaeus was two degrees removed from the Beloved Disciple, St. John. (St. John taught St. Polycarp of Smyrna, who taught St. Irenaeus.)

Thirty years before St. Irenaeus, St. Justin Martyr also compared Mary's obedience to Eve's disobedience.

Compared to that, most Protestant doctrinal distinctives are Johnny-come-lately's.

[safisoft]

Compared to that, most Protestant doctrinal distinctives are Johnny-come-lately's.

I read and study Torah in Hebrew. Compared to that, most Greek anteniceans are Johnny-come-nevers.

[Elsie]

Eve, however, was disobedient; and when yet a virgin, she did not obey....

Uh...

...how does one know THIS???

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Someone who gives me the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, naked, and I'm gonna jump her bones before running off to the woods to look at some dumb tree!!!!