May I ask on what grounds you so gratuitously dismiss and demean a valid citation as "a snippet?"
What Christian "doctrines" are Catholics violating to give Mary her "undue place?"
-—I wouldn’t necessarily go by what Luther said, especially a snippet.
May I ask on what grounds you so gratuitously dismiss and demean a valid citation as “a snippet?” -—
Snippet is defined as, “a small piece or brief extract.” That is what your quotation is, by com-parison to Luther’s whole works. I’m not very familiar with his works. I’ve only read that and some other snippets, and perhaps some time back, a few longer excerpts. You also don’t pro-vide any perspective on this quote, like giving a sense of the context. So I don’t know what place this snippet holds in his views. When did he write it? And suppose in all he wrote, this short paragraph was all he wrote about Mary?
-—What Christian “doctrines” are Catholics violating to give Mary her “undue place?” -—
Any doctrines about Mary that Protestants don’t share are a good place to start looking. Co-redemptrix, the prayers to Mary that use the same phrases and ideas that Bible-believing Christians use in their prayers to the Father through Jesus, the brown scapular guarantee supposedly made by Mary that the one who dies wearing it will be saved, etc. I’ve already posted at length about all sorts of Mary doc-trines and teachings in the Catholic Church during the past year or so here, and won’t discuss them an-ymore since there are better ways for me to spend the time and resources given to me, I know, and there’s no reason to repeat arguments that are already written about online, here and other places.