Right, because actually following the Bible which says Mary is full of grace is somehow “usurping” when it is you and your fellow heretics who have a problem with the Church that Christ instituted and proceed to make little congregations among yourselves founded in sophistry and misinterpretation if the inspired word of God. Try again.
Oh my, without conflating spiritual Ekklesia with the institutional church, where would catholics be? LOL
Following the BIBLE???
Your chosen religion has added so many things to the simple Jewish gir's abilities that she is UNRECOGNIZEABLE to someone 'following the bible'!
Having assumed that Catholics, when they post "Church" with upper case C, they mean the Catholic Church.
If this was your meaning, it is not Biblically correct.
Even though it has been stated here that Jesus was a Catholic and that Catholicism started in the year Zero, there were no Catholics until long after Jesus died
Peter was ex post factoed in as the first pope hundreds of years later, then a list of following popes was conjured up.
The church that Jesus started in the 1st century was made up of all born again saved followers of Jesus. It is 100% made up of Christians.
Which, as an aside, is why the body of Christ CANNOT be contained within the Catholic church, nor any other denomination for that matter.
I imagine all Christian denominations, including Catholicism, have Christians in them.
Salvation: courtesy ping as you seem to have some confusion about this issue. I hope you read down this far.