Protestant teaching of Mary

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Wouldn’t surprise me. Nor could I prove it. So I don’t assert it.
 
AugustTherese said:
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Wannano:
You are cool presenting it from here on as your own invention but keep in mind the Commandment not to bear false witness your neighbor.
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There are tens of thousands of Protestant denominations and that is a fact.
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That may well be and there are tens of thousands of Catholics who do not practice their faith at all but so what? What one does with information like that to prove a point may be presenting a false witness. We are each responsible for our attitudes and actions.
 
Did the Baptist minister say “we don’t worship Mary”? If he did, he was correct about Catholics. We do NOT worship Mary. This is a huge misconception among some Protestants, usually those who have been fed anti-Catholicism. We venerate Mary and we ask her to pray to God for us. Huge difference between “worship” (she is not a goddess) and “veneration” (to give due praise for her status).
 
po18guy said:
Only Son. Firstborn dead.
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This is a figure of speech, found elsewhere in scriptures. It defines the level of lamenting, that can be applied to any lamenting.They even paid people to lament in such fashion’ in those days…professional mourners.
 
Francis said:
Song of Solomon 6:4 You (Mary) are beautiful as Tirzah,
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I guess you can apply this to Mary, but only as a third or fourth context, and certainly not all of the Song. That is this Song is about a man and a woman and their romantic appeal. I mean do want to start talking about Mary’s beautiful hips and other body parts , that are described in this song ? We shouldn’t cherry pick. The second context is of the bride and groom, Christ and the church , and of their love for one another. And yes the church is perfect here and certainly does not imply past sinlessness as you suggest "flawless’’ to be.
 
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Yep. Them’s the folks. Who say (this is a few years old, as to figures):

"Thank you for your inquiry. I can assure you that the figure of 39,000 is in no way inflated. This number represents our most current, up-to-date data. As we are constantly updating this figure, it is not published in print form. The figure of 33,800 from the year 2000 was printed in our book World Christian Trends, (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2001). Part 12 of World Christian Trends (WCT), Table 12-1 gives figures of denominational totals for all 238 countries of the world. These figures are also represented graphically in WCT on page 917, Global Map 14. The definition for denominations used in WCT, and also in our publication World Christian Encyclopedia (Oxford, 2001) is as follows:

"Any agency consisting of a number of congregations or churches voluntarily aligning themselves with it. As a statistical unit in this survey, a ‘denomination’ always refers to one single country. Thus the Roman Catholic Church, although a single organization, is described here as consisting of 236 denominations in the world’s 238 countries."

Emphasis added.
 
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GKMotley said:
As a statistical unit in this survey, a ‘denomination’ always refers to one single country
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Protestant denominations are not countries, they are ecclesial sects. And, there are circa 47,000.
 
That number of 47,000 came from a Protestant seminary. And, you have the audacity to project ‘stubbornness with misinformation’. Whatever makes you sleep better, brother.
 
That’s the authors of the study speaking. The study which has produced these figures, Note the mention of The World Christian Encyclopedia Center. Note the mention of The World Christian Encyclopedia, in the quote I posted, from the people who produce The World Christian Encyclopedia. That’s their definition of the meaning of the figures cited as to number of denominations. They get to do that. It’s their study. You want to offer a different meaning for denomination, do your own study.

This is among the more obtuse replies I’ve gotten on the subject. It is not the first such, though.
 
I’m way behind the time on the figures, but at a recent point, it listed the Episcopal Church (the one in the US), as 16 (I think) denominations, counting whatever tenuous presence TEC might have over the hills and far away. And whatever one might think of TEC, it is not 16 denominations.
 
I can do a lot more fun with numbers with those figures, than I can with silly Mariology delusions.
 
Those parts represent the various virtues of Mary. The whole Songs fits in nicely with Marian theology.
 
And the academic association lends, to some, credence.

As you know, for all I know, the true number of a reasonable definition of denominations extant could be 44K squared. I have no idea. But when the figures come from this source, it’s not talking denomination the way normal folks might. Heck, using the 47K figures, and a few minor assumptions in definitions I could get a total of 188.5 denoms in the world.

I won’t, though.
 
Francis said:
thanks for understanding we are are all the spiritual children of the new Eve Mother Mary
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Well wait , i said we are all interconnected and definitely have lineage, but i do not go too far and concentrate on only Mary, and do not think she is a new Eve. Don’t see Paul inferring Mary in Galatians. The desolate one is the one ( the church /disciples) without a husband (the ascended Christ), for the disciples in fear without fruit awaited for the Holy Ghost, to give forth fruit of children(believers), on Pentecost.
Francis said:
Genesis 3:15 15 I will put enmities between thee(satan) and the woman(Mary), and thy(satan and wicked people ) seed and her seed(Jesus and we Catholic and those who respect and honor her ): she (Mother Mary) shall crush thy(satan) head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her(Mother Mary) heel.
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This is a mistranslation from Vulgate , which I believe has been addressed/admitted by the Pope even recently. It is Christ who crushes Satan’s head.

As to Eve, she was restored after the fall, and a child of the promise thereafter. She did not fail, for indeed she passed on the “prophecy”. But yes, in childbearing was woman saved, even Eve, even Mary, even us.
 
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The article says around 200, right?
 
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