[CindyDawg]

The thing is Robby, that for me to understand and agree with you then I need to see the scripture supporting this. I have asked yall multiple times on different posts but no one will reply. We both believe in the Bible so that should be our common denominator. You "tradition" is as foreign to me as a Baptist doctrine would be to you. Can't we just stick to the Bible because both should be originated from scripture?

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Can't we just stick to the Bible because both should be originated from scripture?

It sounds better to say "sacred tradition" rather than "There is no scripture to back it up".

[RobbyS]

To us the Scriptures ARE tradition. Anyway, we are, after all, all looking backward at the events described in Scripture,and looking at them through the prisms of different "traditions."If one ignores or minimizes the infancy narratives in Matthew and Luke, then one has the modern Baptist Mary--a Mary who fits the Baptist tradition. If one puts a great deal of stress on them, the first two chapters of Luke and--I must add--the Cana story and the story of Mary at the Cross, then one has something like the Catholic Mary.