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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.

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I don't believe Mary wrote the book of John.
BTW, I believe the passage you are quoting (John 1) refers to JESUS.

Correct both times. And who is the Mother of the Word St. John is referring to?

7,426 posted on 05/31/2006 10:55:37 AM PDT by annalex
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My eye sight must be failing me, isn't that you who wrote "and who is the "Mother of the Word" St. John is referring to?

I asked you to sight the passage because I was unfamiliar with any such passage and you have yet to admit there is no such passage.

"No one among the inspired writers literally called Mary the Mother of the Word, but this is a reasonable inference."

I'm sorry I didn't have time to fully review this post. I appreciate you taking the time to retract your earlier posts where you implied that the inspired writers had called Mary the "Mother of the Word".
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" 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."

It is this type of "fuzzy" logic that has enabled your church to raise Mary to heights that are not appropriate. It is kind of you to be as honest as you have been and you truly have illustrated some of the fundamental differences between Roman Catholics and the Reformers and why there was such a great need for reform. The whole idea that a human being who faithfully carried out a task they were given by GOD is anymore than a humble servant of GOD is irresponsible.