[Antoninus]

So one person conjectered 600 years after Christ about what might have happened to Mary and this becomes a whole doctrinal point of view?

An ironic argument coming from anyone whose church was founded on doctrines created 1,500 years after Christ.

[daniel1212]

An ironic argument coming from anyone whose church was founded on doctrines created 1,500 years after Christ.

Actually, it is distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation.

[MHGinTN]

You are confusing the Org system with the body of ALL believers since that fateful Day of Pentecost written of in The Acts of The Apostles. (naturally done by Catholics since they are trained to depend on thwir Org for salvation, eventually, after striving all life in a savramental circus).

I belong to That Church, as does Harley D, and many many freepers. Do you belong to That Church, and the Catholic church?

[HarleyD]

An ironic argument coming from anyone whose church was founded on doctrines created 1,500 years after Christ.

An old and very tired argument that's been played out on this site time and time again. If you want to believe somebody "hypothesis" 600 years after the fact and make this into doctrine, then it's disingenuous for Catholics to tell Protestants they made up things 1500 years later. Time isn't the issue.

Protestants (at least some) still believe the scriptures to be the ONLY infallible and inerrant word of God in which one is not to add to it, change it, or delete from it. You won't find this "doctrine" anywhere in scripture. Despite what our early church fathers wrote, the same feeling of the purity of scriptures can't be said for Catholics as this points out.