[wbarmy]

Tim Staples wrote a book - Behold Your Mother: A Biblical and Historical Defense of the Marian Doctrines,

and states;

In my new book,... I spend most of its pages in classic apologetic defense of Mary as Mother of God, defending her immaculate conception, perpetual virginity, assumption into heaven, her Queenship, and her role in God’s plan of salvation as Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix. But perhaps my most important contributions in the book may well be how I demonstrate each of these doctrines to be crucial for our spiritual lives and even our salvation.

My salvation depends on the work of Jesus Christ on the Cross, not anything Mary is being trumped up as. There is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.

And in addition, where is the Biblical support for any of those Marian theological positions. Everything I find is so lackadaisical in theological rigor it is almost unreadable.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You are laboring under the false basis of Sola Scriptura. As you know, the bible did come into being like the ten commandments; God did not use His own divine finger to write them in one discrete moment of time. The books of the bible were written over time, using human instruments, and selected and compiled by the same men who you now contend cannot possibly be divinely preserved from teaching error — men who believed in the perpetual virginity and assumption of Mary.