Mary bodily assumed into heaven?
Paul says flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom (1 Cor. 15:50)
Mary free from sin?
Paul says all have sinned. (Rom. 5:12)
“But especially Eve, the mother of all the living (Genesis 3:20), is considered as a type of Mary who is the mother of all the living in the order of grace [16].” (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Paul says grace was a free gift from God and came through Christ. (Romans 5:15) Did Paul overlook Mary?
Paul discusses type and anti-types extensively but nowhere does he compare Mary to Eve. Of Eve Paul says she, being “deceived was in the transgression.” (1 Tim. 2:14)
I think it's clear in this and so many other teachings Paul is at odds with Catholic doctrine and teaching."
AMEN. Great examples.
Further, Paul would most certainly have been anathematized by Rome, as all Protestants have been, because He said He "knew whom he had believed," and that he was "confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in (him) will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."
No wonder so many Roman Catholics don't "get" Paul.
“No wonder so many Roman Catholics don’t “get” Paul.”
But he is loved:
“I love St. Paul: love his short tempter, knack for poetry, brainy talmudism, long complex thought process, appetite for self-denial.” annalex.
Yes. That is a Catholic teaching: a good Catholic will be seen through to salvation by the Mother Church. He also said, "with fear and trembling work out your salvation. For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will" (Phil. 2:12f), something no Calvinist can comprehend.