That is simply the typical RC recourse to argument from silence, that as Scripture does not exclude something, then it can be justified as true. But while such maybe allowed for speculation, yet it is simply untenable for doctrine.
Rastafarianism believes that Solomon had a child with the Queen of Sheba, who had visited Solomon in Israel. Since there is nothing that excludes this - except that the Holy Spirit characteristically records even less notable aspects of Biblical subjects - then a consistent RC must contend this could become an official belief.
Likewise, having zero examples of any prayers to anyone in Heaven but the Lord among the close to 200 in Scripture, or any testimony of anyone but the Lord being able to hear and respond to virtually innumerable incessant prayers addressed to them - or even a distinction btwn believers of saints and non-saints - yet Catholicism teaches the heretical doctrine of prayers to departed saints .
Moreover, while Mary is highly blessed among women, and is to be honored according to what is written, this does not translate in the type of supererogation of praise seen in Catholicism, in which humble Mary is made into an almost almighty demigoddess to whom "Jesus owes His Precious Blood" to,
whose [Mary] merits we are saved by,
who "had to suffer, as He did, all the consequences of sin,"
and "was elevated to a certain equality with the Heavenly Father,"
even so that sometimes salvation is quicker if we remember Mary's name then if we invoked the name of the Lord Jesus,"
for indeed saints have "but one advocate," and that is Mary, who "alone art truly loving and solicitous for our salvation,"
and whose power now "is all but unlimited,"
for indeed she "seems to have the same power as God,"
"surpassing in power all the angels and saints in Heaven,"
so that "the Holy Spirit acts only by the Most Blessed Virgin, his Spouse."
Moreover, "there is no grace which Mary cannot dispose of as her own, which is not given to her for this purpose,"
and who has "authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven,"
including "assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels,"
whom the good angels "unceasingly call out to," greeting her "countless times each day with 'Hail, Mary,' while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests,"
and who (obviously) cannot "be honored to excess,"
and who is (obviously) the glory of Catholic people, whose "honor and dignity surpass the whole of creation." Sources .
Yet as i have said before, one would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, and as having Divine powers and glory, and making offerings and beseeching such for Heavenly help, directly accessed by mental prayer.
Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?
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That is simply the typical RC recourse to argument from silence, that as Scripture does not exclude something, then it can be justified as true.
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You misjudge. No Catholic should ever *use* an argument from silence to justify anything as being true. I was not attempting to anything of the sort. Perhaps I did not state it carefully enough.
And, I will remind us all again, that the evil of our times is increasing exponentially. Let us cease arguing over such things and commit ourselves to prayer for the conversion of the MANY peoples who have no clue of what is coming.