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Answer this and then we can address the question of the brothers and sisters of the Lord.

First of all, you don't tell me what/when to answer nor do you decide in what order. Don't try commanding me like the CC does to it's subjects. It doesn't work on those who are free 'in Christ'.

Secondly, there is nothing to discuss - the Word is the Final Authority. I spent 2/3 of my life in the RCC before TRUTH came into my life - so don't try spin on me. Christianity is ALL about Jesus. Catholicism isn't. Keep pushing the CC 'made up Mary' - and not the Mary of the bible and what JESUS said about His mother and brothers - if you are hell bent on spreading heresy.

It's God's Kingdom - not The Vatican's with their man made teachings. Their teachings only apply to their worldly religious organization and has NOTHING to do with God's Kingdom and HIS Way.

Now stick with the topic. JESUS is the ONE Mediator because HE SAID IT! Case closed!

I say this because the heart of Catholic doctrine about Mary centers on the question, Who is Jesus? You say that the Bible --which you call the Word-- is the final authority. Well, first of all, the Bible says that JESUS is the WORD. (John Chapter I). Not the book but the man called Jesus. But who is Jesus? Well, the testimony is that he is THE CHRIST.

But who/what is THE CHRIST? The Jewish Scriptures are not at all clear about that.. The New Testament is an effort to show by those Scriptures that the coming of Jesus and his deeds were foretold in Jewish Scripture. The Jews look at those same Scriptures and contend that they see no such thing. Now their canon of Scriptures omits many books, such as Wisdom, but you accept that same canon as your own. So if you and they both look at the same words and SEE different truths about Jesus, then they will be no more convinced by the testimony of the New Testament than you can be convinced otherwise. They come from a long tradition of interpretation.You come from another.

Yours, I submit, because you reject Catholic tradition, is even briefer, not even going back to the Reformation, for they had much more reverence for Mary than you have.

But that is not really what I want to talk about here. You should not dismiss out of hand what has happened over a period of two thousand years, especially the Arian controversy. For at bottom, it was a battle over the interpretation of the Bible. WHO IS JESUS? Arius claimed that the Bible says that Jesus is divine, but is not God. The Church rejected this interpretation of Scripture. Arius put his Scripture as proof. The Church disagreed. The Nicaean Creed is a statement of that disagreement and a positive statement saying who they thought Jesus is. Two interpretation of Scripture clashing. If you don’t study them carefully, you will think that they are quibbling. But they are profoundly different. IS the Nicaean formula one you agree with or one you reject? No point in talking about Mary unless we first agree who Christ is. To both of us, she is just a creature of God.