You just didn’t read what I wrote at all, did you? Either that or you read it and didn’t understand it. Or you just want to defend your religion without giving thoughts that are new to you a just and honest hearing. Or - - ?
I gave Mary all the credit you give her for the Virgin birth of Jesus, which is the key to Christianity. Joseph was not His father; Father God was - by the Holy Spirit.
Why do you attribute things to me that I didn’t say and that I went way out of my way to clarify to you before you ever answered me?
“And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” Luke 1:43
As I said, Jesus was her (and Elizabeth’s) Lord even while he was in the Adamic body born of Mary, but when he resurrected he was in a new, spiritual body of physical flesh and bone (with no blood) (Luke 24:39) that Mary had nothing to do with.
Saying that Mary is the mother of the eternal God is an absurdity. How can she be the mother of God when God was existent eternally, before the world was created?
Bishops, of which there were usually more than one in each central church, were not much more than errand-runners - representatives between churches, carrying messages. Why should I put their word in authority above God’s?
It’s ironic you that bring up ignorance of scripture and the church. I don’t think I am having the problems with that that you are. If you knew the history of the Catholic church I don’t think you would stay in it. As for Holy Scripture, if the words of mere men compete with it in your mind, then you don’t understand the importance of it. God puts His word ABOVE His name! Psalm 138:b says, “for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. “. Can men’s words be on THAT level?
What that is really all about is an effort to deny that an all-powerful God can do things that we cannot understand. If we can't understand it, He cannot do it.
False, by the way.