My dear “one Lord one faith one baptism,” I don’t misunderstand Roman Catholic teaching in regard to Mary at all, and my comparison of Catholic/Mary to Dispensationalist/Israel is spot on. You have just as much trouble seeing your side’s imbalance as the dispensationalists have in seeing theirs. Both of you are misreading the Holy Scriptures it regard to the proper relationship of Mary/Israel to the Christ. You easily see the problem on their part with Israel. They easily see the problem on your part with Mary.
Yet, there are true believers on both sides despite the imbalance ... and there are unbelievers on both sides as well.
no my dear friend, the imbalance does not lie in Catholic teaching, but in those that misrepresent it. for example, the title “Mother of God” is actually all about praising the Lord Jesus Christ and defending His divinity and is not at all teaching any merit in Mary. i would love to find a Protestant on FR that actually correctly states Catholic teaching, but to date, have been sorely disapointed. maybe that is because if they actually were exposed to the true doctrines, they converted and are no longer Protestant.
Are You Lutheran? I thought I was the only one.