(1)I am still waiting for you to show me;...
Where "in-the-Bible" is says that "everything-that-is-true-is-in-The-Bible"?
Or I have to "show you from The Bible"?
Sola Scriptura is "man-made-baseless-assertion"
It is clearly denied many times wthin the scripture it
pretends to honour.
But its proponents trot it out insistently,
as the limit of truth in discussion, without ever proving it.
But...
"Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;"
Jesus, & His Body,....(His Church) are one.
He identifies totally with His Church (
"Saul; why do you persecute ME?")
And He tells you it is His Church (NOT SCRIPTURE) "that is the pillar & foundation of truth" (1 Tim 3:15)
The Jews were awaiting The Messiah that would "re-establish the Davidic Kingdom, that would last forever & encompass The Nations". They were not expecting "A New Book".
So Jesus talks about "The Kingdom" incessantly.
And in Matt 16:18-19 Jesus calls This Kingdom-of-Heaven "MY CHURCH" .
He tells Peter IT WILL NEVER FAIL & He gives Peter "The Keys" of This Kingdom-of-Heaven.
He selects 12 Apostles as the princes for the 12 tribes and sets Peter up as The Davidic Steward who rules in the King's stead.....a succesive office. (cf Matt 16:18-19 with Isaiah 22:19-23)
So, instead of writing a book, Jesus founded a living Church...
"that would never fail" (Matt 16:18);
that he would be with until the end of time (Matt 28:20);
&
"lead into all Truth". (John 16:13).
And if you want to hear this "Word-of-God" he said
"
"Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
His "Word" was entrusted to His Apostolic Church.....not to a book.
THE CHURCH IN ACTS (Acts 2:42)
"And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ TEACHING and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers."
ie "The Mass" & "The oral Apostolic tradition" (Notice "Apostle's Teachings"....NOT Scripture)
HOW was this "Tradition" preserved?
2 Tim 2:2 Paul says
"You therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard me say among many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be qualified to teach others as well."
You take what I taught you (1 generation)
Teach this to others.... (2 generations)
Who will teach others.... (3 generations)
THREE GENERATIONS! THIS IS CATHOLIC ORAL APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION (Nothing there about writing books, printing them up, scripture studies etc.)
It was from this living, Apostolic-Teaching-Church,
that preserved truth by appointing succesive Teachers, that writings emerged that were being read from at The Holy Mass.
Some were considered spurious. So, around 400 AD, a list by Athanasius was approved by several popes & 4 Councils.
This important
part of the Apostolic Faith was later called The Bible.
It is part of he Apostolic tradition...which is the Catholic Church.
So Christ's "work" is His everlasting Church/Kingdom ....
not a book.
"The Book" (Bible) Is the family-library/album of The Catholic Church.
It is very,very important; but it came FROM the Church; and testifies to this, His one Church....with a LIVING Magisterium (For He said
to His Apostles "I am with you all days unto the end of time"....therefore including their successors)
You can read this "family-library"; you can play "pretend-games" with it (Called "Protestantism"); but you are actually called TO BE A LIVING MEMBER of this actual family.
(2)Do you accept that ALL salvation & grace comes through Christ.
(3)Do you accept that God did not impregnate Mary without her
free consent?
(4)Do you accept that therefore ALL salvation & grace comes through Mary's assent (reversing Eve's disobedience)?
Personally I find great wonder that almighty God let Salvation depend on the free "Yes" of a young, virgin daughter of Zion.
But it had to be; because The Fall came through Eve's free choice to listen to a fallen Angel.
(5)Do you accept that Jesus's "Glorifies His Mother" (in obedience to the 4th commandment) more wonderfully than any other human ever did or will?
(6)Do you think any Catholic loves Mary (which you
misjudge as worship) more than Jesus loves His mum?
(7)Do you accept that the final covenant is familial....
That God The Son became one-of-us to become our brother, that He has given us His Father as our father, making us "sons & daughters" of God?
(8)And if you are Jesus's brother, is not Mary your Mother?
(9) (John 19:26-27)
When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”
Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home."
Is this just a new domestic arrangement introduced incidentally into The Bible?
Or is it (as well) a cosmic finale of the reversal of Adam & Eve
?
Jesus calls His Mum "Woman"!
Is he breaking the 4th Commandment to die in sin?
Or is He referring to "The Woman" of Genesis. The name Eve had before she sinned. The new "mother of all the living".
Now she is Mother of "the disciple He loves" (
YOU amariselle)
confirmed in Rev 12:17
"And the dragon was enraged at the woman (who gave birth to Jesus), and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus."
She is our Mother too....completing the family nature of the covenant.
That's why we, love, honour & venerate her
That's why we bring flowers to her statues or images.
She is only a creature; but as spouse of The Holy Spirit & Mother of The Son she personifies God's total adoption of mankind.
That should be a great comfort, hope, inspiration & consolation to all Christians