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To: ealgeone
Is Prayer/Veneration/Worship to Mary Biblical?

Well; the bible does NOT record any of this stuff directed toward MARY.

Wanna glom together a bunch of disparate verses and then create some DOGMA???

306 posted on 12/15/2014 5:50:21 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

What is the Bible, but some glommed together, disparate books and letters? You see, the Bible, as a volume, doesn’t exist in the Bible. Rather, the only Scripture that could have been referenced was the Torah. Did St. Peter read Luke’s Gospel, or Revelations? I don’t think so. Did ANY of the New Testament writers read what we call the Bible, as a volume? NO!

The beliefs of the Apostles and their successors were generally handed down by word of mouth, as well as by the few epistles, until the close of the Canon of Scripture. There are any number of 1st and 2nd century references to Mary, and even the concept of dulia, latria, and hyperdulia.

Was everything Jesus did recorded in the Bible? Nope. So the argument of something not being Biblical is quite weak.

Do we know that Jesus perfectly obeyed the Commandments? Yes. Would He perfectly honor His mother? Yes. Are we to imitate Christ? Yes. So, isn’t His mother due great (perfect) honor? If Jesus Christ could, as mandated in the 10 Commandments, honor His mother, while simultaneously honoring God the Father (the 1st Commandment), then it is not impossible for anyone else.


321 posted on 12/15/2014 6:46:35 AM PST by SpirituTuo
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