***Much appreciate the confirmation of the late dates of some of the political affirmations of some of the Mary nonsense***
The Mary nonsense started in the 1700s, I believe, when 4th and 5th generation Reformers and Restorationists started morphing their theologies considerably far afield from Luther, Calvin and Zwingli.
The Church has the authority; generation after generation of illigitimate theological children do not.
Gen 1:
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God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.
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God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.
God meant for us to fill the earth with humans, not exotic theologies.