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To: annalex

"For the tenth time, Mary gave us Christ himself, which is the entirety of the Revelation, and you keep asking what books she wrote. The answer is, she wrote all of them."
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Let's try to be straightforward in our discussions. You stated in the Book of John he called Mary the "Mother of the Word" and I asked you what passage. I had never seen this in SCRIPTURE. Now you are changing what you said to an interpretation of SCRIPTURE. I know you won't recognize what you've done but you just illustrated how the false doctrines emerge in your church.

Are you truly serious, or is it because your wrong and can't admit it that leads you to say Mary "wrote all of them" when referring to who wrote the SCRIPTURES. You should know that this statement is false on the face of it, or are you also "interpreting" SCRIPTURE to mean that Mary is a part, or coequal, of the TRINITY?


7,600 posted on 06/02/2006 6:13:56 AM PDT by wmfights (Lead, Follow, or Get Out Of The WAY!)
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To: wmfights; Forest Keeper
You stated in the Book of John he called Mary the "Mother of the Word"

I did not state that. This is my entire post 7456:

Christ is the Word, Mary is His mother. This is the Word she gave birth to. You asked whether Mary wrote any scripture as if writing the scripture is the only yardstick of veneration. It is not, -- Christ wrote no scripture either.

Evangelist John explained that Christ is the Word. The fact the Mary is his mother we know from several Gospels. No one among the inspired writers literally called Mary the Mother of the Word, but this is a reasonable inference. If you took the inference I invited you to make as a statement about what is in the Gospel of St. John, sorry to have created that impression in you.

leads you to say Mary "wrote all of them" when referring to who wrote the SCRIPTURES. You should know that this statement is false on the face of it

Of course it is wrong on the face of it. We have 73 books in the Bible and Mary is not on any title page. Although, I hasten to say, we know the names of most of the inspired authors from the Catholic tradition, and not from the scripture itself.

Your point however, was that since Mary did not write any scripture, why venerate her (7300)? This would have come across better if the bibliolators at least venerated the evangelist saints. But my comment stands: The Blessed Virgin Mary gave birth to Christ our Lord, Who gave us all the scripture. To call her the writer of all the scripture is a logical hyperbole, as among the humans that produced the scripture she did the foundational work.

7,609 posted on 06/02/2006 11:05:00 AM PDT by annalex
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