[papertyger]

I can show you what the book that Rome assembled so long ago says. Would THAT suffice?

No.

You can include the entire Bible as a source (rather than the nebulous "Rome") and it still won't change the obvious play on words you rage against for the sake of your tortured, man-made, doctrine.

[Elsie]

You can include the entire Bible as a source (rather than the nebulous "Rome") and it still won't change the obvious play on words you rage against for the sake of your tortured, man-made, doctrine.

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,  a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever ...

believes that the Roman Catholic Church is the ONE True church,

and...
believes the wine and wafer served up by the priest is TRULY Christ's real flesh and blood (and eats it),

and...
believes he MUST confess his sins to the Only person able to forgive his sins (the priest),

and...
believes Mary is in Heaven,

and...
believes Mary will get Jesus to do whatever SHE tells Him, 

and...
believes Mary is a NECESSARY part of salvation,
and...
believes Mary is everyone's mother,

and...
believes Mary has, at many times and various places, brought yet another  message from Heaven that evidently was forgotten to be included in the bible when Rome assembled it,
and...
believes Mary makes promises to her adorers and venerators and hyperdulia expressors that she will bestow upon them HER favors if they do HER will,

and...
believes many famous dead Catholics have similar powers that Rome has attributed to Mary,

and...

believes holy water will repel vampires,          (well; maybe not THIS one...)

 

... will not be put to shame.” (I Peter 2:4-6) -- as Rome teaches it.