[MayflowerMadam]

Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible. It’s one of those pesky Commandments — the one forbidding idolatry. Exodus 20:4: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:5 - “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them”

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible.

This is the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding Mary.

There is nothing regarding worship.

And when you find Luther's doctrine of Sola Scriptura in the Bible, let me know. It will be quite a trick, since the canon of Scripture wasn't assembled until centuries after the last book of the Biblia was written. How could a passage in the Bible refer to an as-yet-to-exist book?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, it's not adoring the Blessed Virgin Mary, it's honoring her. And that's addressed by another Commandment, a column-inch down the page: "Honor thy father and thy mother."

And by Mary's own prophetic declaration: "All generations will call me blessed."

A true prophecy of Christians through the centuries.

[terycarl]

Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible. It’s one of those pesky Commandments — the one forbidding idolatry. Exodus 20:4: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:5 - “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them”

what an extraordinarily perverse interpretation of that passage!!!