Which of the following is a slanderous misrepresentation?
God several times throughout Scripture says He will not share His glory.
True. Any "glory" Mary has comes from Christ. That should not be a problem for you. Mary is a mere , but extraordinary, human being. Any glory Magneta has comes from Christ, so if it counts for you it should count for Our Lord's mother. I would like to start at the beginning where we get the idea of the sacred. It's in the OT; without that we just go in circles.
Catholics glorify, venerate, and adore Mary.
Misleading.
If by "adore" you mean "worship of God and God alone", the statement is patently false. Catholics worship God and God alone.
We venerate Mary because God venerated her first, if you go by the dictionary definition of "venerate". It does not mean "worship". Giving highest of honors to Mary is biblical because she is blessed of all women that ever lived. We are to honor our parents, that does not mean worship our parents. There is nothing wrong with holding human beings in high esteem, or, "honor". Scripture is full of examples.
Jesus did not once in Scripture address Mary as His mother.
We tend to think "woman" has a deeper meaning than gender.
God said “woman” in Genesis 3:15, and He said “woman” in Rev. 12: >> The only two places in scripture where you have a woman anda serpent. Genesis and Revelation, the beginning and the end of theBible.
God said “women” at the Wedding of Cana, and He said “woman” while dying on the cross. The beginning and the endof his of His earthly ministry. "Woman" is not a demeaning term in bible times.
Catholics call Mary the mother of humanity and the queen of heaven.
Mother of humanity makes sense because all she wants is for people to turn to her Son. John 3:16 does not say, "for God so loved just Christians..." All the Davidic kings had queens (the mother, not the wife) with roles of intercession to the king. Queens were honored then, and Mary was obviously honored because the Jewish followers of Jesus understood the structure of the Jewish monarchy. Her queenship was taken for granted. That is not explicit in the NT but can be deduced, along with various other passages and an understanding of the structure of the Davidic Kingdom.
Jesus said that anyone who did the will of God was His mother, His brother, His sister.
Yes. That affirms her role as a perfect model of faith, unless you want to argue that Mary did not do the will of God. That's the point Jesus is making. The idea that Jesus would denigrate his mother and violate the 4th commandment (honor your parents) is unthinkable.
Jesus never elevated Mary above others.
Jesus gave his mother to all of us, represented by John, from the cross.
Catholics elevate Mary above others, and put her on a par with Jesus in terms of His sinlessness.
That's silly, Mary's sinlessness comes from the merits of the cross, (which is not linear in one direction) which made her Full of Grace. Sin cannot coexist with "Full of Grace" or its not full. She cannot possibly be "on a par with Jesus" and you won't find that in any official Catholic document over a 2000 year period.
They are forced by so-called infallible papal decree to accept the Marian dogmas of her bodily assumption and immaculate conception, neither of which have any basis whatsoever in Scripture.
There is plenty of basis in scripture, you demand explicit proof texting for everything, which is unbiblical..
Jesus told us to pray to our Father in heaven.
That does not exclude other prayers, like the Psalms.
Catholics pray to Mary despite what Jesus explicitly instructed.
Did Jesus explicitly instruct you not to asks people to pray for you? There's very little difference.
Scripture clearly states that there is one intercessor between God and man
Yes, I've been over that several times. Jesus is one intercessor between God and man. That's because He is both God and man. Mary does not take that high a role. Jesus allows subordinate intercessors, its very biblical.
Catholics promote Mary as an intercessor, and other dead people as well.
There is no such thing as a dead saint, that is a Protestant invention and nowhere in Scripture.
Within Catholicism, there is a drive to define a new Marian dogma in which Catholics, as a matter of faith, would be obliged to accept: 1) Mary participates in redemption with Jesus Christ;
so do you.
2) grace is granted by Jesus only through the intercession of Mary;
False.
Scripture tells us not to call anyone Father but God.
No, scripture says no such thing. Scripture says not to elevate anyone to the level of God the Father. Catholics don't do that.
Catholics call many men "father."
It's very scriptural.
Catholics believe that a fallible man is the Rock that Jesus is building His Church on.
No. No man is infallible. No pope is infallible. Infallibility is a negative charism given to the Church to prevent her from teaching error on matters of faith and morals.
Scripture atte sts to a plethora of Scriptures affirming God as the Rock of our salvation.
I don't contest that truth. But "rock" has many meanings in scripture.
By any sane way of reckoning, those are ALL true
statements. Why are you insulted by the truth?
Because they not all true statements. Your source for these questions, especially the way they are worded, are extremely biased. All you will get is demonizing of the Church which is the staple of billions of sites, as well as "Bible-Christian" communities who propagate hate like Jack Chick, Dave Hunt, and a legion of other deceivers. Go to the source! If you were writing a book about African-Americans, would you go to the Ku Klux Klan for information? if you want to find out something about the Catholic Church, don't go to the ones that hate her. I recommend this one:
Catholic Answers
I can't give proper answers when bulldozed by so many questions, I was rather brief. Please keep the number of objections to one or two. Thanks.
