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As was stated above, we don’t have to respond to every criticism. In the early Church and then in succeeding times, there have been scripture arguments, this versus that. The Church didn’t always document its beliefs until a controversy arose. And, we have had councils and popes who have settled the arguments. Scripture study was way more intense in the early centuries than you might expect.
So, if you need a response to those questions you should respond by asking what the Church has maintained over the centuries. The quotations in the top comment sound like superficial, modernist revisionist ideas.
Brant Pitre has a book in print titled Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary. Well, Mary was not a tree with literal roots – what this is referring to are the prophecies of the Old Testament that refer to Mary. In addition, the Church recognizes “typology” between the OT and the NT. For example, Eve, in Genesis, is a “type” of Mary – they were both conceived without sin, for example. So, there are a lot of things in the OT which explain the beliefs of the Catholic Church.
For us to evangelize others, we have to educate ourselves, continually. So, too, those who do not recognize the teaching authority of the Church are going to have whatever private interpretation of scripture that fancies them. Catholics have one pope (usually) but Protestants have many “popes” who teach what suits them, rather than what is within the long tradition of the Catholic Church.
SO…your response is…(wait for it)…by what authority does this person make these claims?
So, if you need a response to those questions you should respond by asking what the Church has maintained over the centuries. The quotations in the top comment sound like superficial, modernist revisionist ideas.
Brant Pitre has a book in print titled Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary. Well, Mary was not a tree with literal roots – what this is referring to are the prophecies of the Old Testament that refer to Mary. In addition, the Church recognizes “typology” between the OT and the NT. For example, Eve, in Genesis, is a “type” of Mary – they were both conceived without sin, for example. So, there are a lot of things in the OT which explain the beliefs of the Catholic Church.
For us to evangelize others, we have to educate ourselves, continually. So, too, those who do not recognize the teaching authority of the Church are going to have whatever private interpretation of scripture that fancies them. Catholics have one pope (usually) but Protestants have many “popes” who teach what suits them, rather than what is within the long tradition of the Catholic Church.
SO…your response is…(wait for it)…by what authority does this person make these claims?