Thank you for the time to post your verses and for the opportunity to show the Bible answers. Now lets see if they say what you THINK and have been told that they say.
1. Mary was a virgin before and after the incarnation of Jesus.
You said and posted:
John 19:25-27................
"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the
wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own
home."
And of course when we read the exact words of the text you provided, THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE WORD THAT VALIDATE YOUR CLAIM OF PERTETUAL VIRGINITY MARY.
I would venture to say that you and most Catholic believers do not even know where the idea of Pertetual Virginity came from, or you would have already posted your thoughts.
Allow me to say to you that the idea of the perpetual virginity of Mary comes from a dubious apocryphal book written well after the New Testament. The book is called the Infancy Gospel of James, The Protoevangelium of James, or sometimes simply Protoevangelium, and it is estimated to have been written in the middle part of the second century.
The Protoevangelium of James is like other forgeries trying to capitalize on an apostle. James, the half-brother of Jesus, was elevated to an apostle after he saw the resurrected Savior in
Galatians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 15:7. So some people thought using his name would give some much needed credibility to the book. However, the church rightly recognized this book was not from the Apostle James. The early church father Origen wrote a commentary on Matthew in which he rejected
The Protoevangelium of James as
spurious and affirmed Mary had other children.
2. The "Rosary".
You posted.........Luke 1:26-45, Matthew 26:36-46, Psalm 136.
Now those verses are way too many to be listed here, but when I read ALL of them again, what I found is that the word ROSARY is NOT FOUND. Additionally there is no suggestion of such a practice to be found.
3. Purgatory.
You listed.......2 Maccabees 12:38-46; Revelation 21:27; Matthew 12:32; 1 Corinthians 3:10-16.
Of course Maccabees IS NOT A BOOK FOUND IN THE BIBLE so it is rejected out of hand.
Rev. 21:27.........
"But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life."
Now when we read that we also see that, that verse is AFTER the 1000 year rule of Christ on the earth and is chronologically right before the New heaven AND nEW EARTH. It is a description of the eternal state for all who have believed upon the Lord Jesus and when you read it, there is again NOT ONE SINGLE WORD THAT READ PURGATORY OR A MENTION OF SUCH A WORD.
4. Mary was sinless.
Luke 1:28, Matthew 1:1 to Revelation 22:21.
Luke 1:28.......
"And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored
one, the Lord
is with you; blessed
are you among women!”.
SINLESS. Nope! It is not there is it??
“The angel, however, never said that Mary was ‘full of grace’. This Roman Catholic translation is based on the Latin texts. Translations from the original Greek read ‘Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you’ (Luke 1:28). God
favored Mary by choosing her to bear His Son, not by preserving her from Adam’s sin. God blessed Mary ‘
among women’ (Luke 1:28 KJV), not
above women.”
Revelation 22:21.......
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you
ALL. Amen."
NOPE. Nothing there about the sinlessness of Mary. ALL means ALL believers who will share eternity together.
Matthew 1:1.......
"The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham".
Is that what you think that verse says?????? NOPE. Sinless Mary is not there.
5. Bowing down to graven images.
Exodus 20:4-6.........
“
You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God,
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate Me.
That is something I have posted over and over. THANK YOU for agreeing with me as you have just proved my comments for all to see.
If you would like to continue with this I am always available.
Maybe the next one to prove can be where in the Bible does it say that bishops are to be un-married.