That is like a few baptist leaders getting together and saying, well since it isn't in scripture, we put ours heads together and came up with what we believe God forgot to tell us. Now, we'll pass then down, thru the generations and expect every church including the catholics to abide by it. You comfortable with that?
All I said is that this is a good example of how Sacred Tradition helps us to understand Scripture.
You don't have to agree, and you obviously don't view your church in that kind of fashion.
I was not trying to debate, only to show you that this is one of those things. The Catholic Church has always understood the Incarnation in this way.
Haven't you figured it out yet? We are talking about two different issues. You are fighting for something you truly believe and I am just saying you may be right but I can't back it up with scripture and it really doesn't matter to me how God made it happen. You know, Like His will be done?
I know you like to limit yourself to what you can understand from Scripture. But is there really a penalty for thinking about things? If we take one idea and examine it, and see what implications it holds, we may find that it contradicts Scripture elsewhere. Then we would know that the idea is false.
That surely isn't against the Bible, is it? To test ideas and see if they contradict?
SD
Yeah, regarding Mary, a bible is to the RCC as a rifle is to a French Soldier.