The Role of Mary in the Church of Roman Catholicism

what are you implying? if not found explicitly in the bible, it was not taught by the apostolic church? Dogmas were formally defined by the church when there are controversies that comes up. take the case of the immaculate conception formally defined by pope pius ix in 1854. the apostolic church believed mary was sinless and was free of original sin. do you think there will be complete separation between her and satan if she is with sin, Gen3: 15? here are some examples of the faith of the apostolic church...

The Odes of Solomon

So the Virgin became a mother with great mercies. And she labored and bore the Son, but without pain, because it did not occur without purpose. And she did not seek a midwife, because he caused her to give life. She bore as a strong man, with will. . . . [Implied as pain during childbirth is the consequence of sin Gen. 3:16] (19 [A.D. 80]).

Justin Martyr
[Jesus] became man by the Virgin so that the course that was taken by disobedience in the beginning through the agency of the serpent might be also the very course by which it would be put down. Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow her, for which reason the Holy One being born of her is the Son of God. And she replied, “Be it done unto me according to your word” (Luke 1:38) (Dialogue with Trypho 100 [A.D. 155]).

Irenaeus of Lyon
Consequently, then, Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying, “Behold, 0 Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your word.” Eve . . . who was then still a virgin although she had Adam for a husband — for in paradise they were both naked but were not ashamed; for, having been created only a short time, they had no understanding of the procreation of children . . . having become disobedient [sin], was made the cause of death for herself and for the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless still a virgin, being obedient [no sin], was made the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race. . . . Thus, the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith (Against Heresies 3:22:24 [A.D. 189]).

Origen
This Virgin Mother of the Only-begotten of God is called Mary, worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, one of the one (Homily 1 [A.D. 244]).

Hippolytus
He [Jesus] was the ark formed of incorruptible wood. For by this is signified that His tabernacle [Mary] was exempt from defilement and corruption (Orat. In Illud, Dominus pascit me, in Gallandi, Bibl. Patrum, II, 496 ante [A.D. 235]).

Athanasius
The Word, then, visited that earth in which He was yet always present; and saw all these evils. He takes a body of our Nature, and that of a spotless Virgin, in whose womb He makes it His own, wherein to reveal Himself, conquer death, and restore life (On the Incarnation of the Word 8 [A.D. 319]).

Ephraim the Syrian
You alone and your Mother are more beautiful than any others, for there is neither blemish in you nor any stains upon your Mother. Who of my children can compare in beauty to these? (Nisibene Hymns 27:8 [A. D. 361]).

Ambrose of Milan
Come, then, and search out your sheep, not through your servants or hired men, but do it yourself. Lift me up bodily and in the flesh, which is fallen in Adam. Lift me up not from Sarah but from Mary, a Virgin not only undefiled but a Virgin whom grace had made inviolate, free of every stain of sin (Commentary on Psalm 118:22-30 [A.D. 387]).


the church had no problem even if there in nothing explicit in the bible as long as it is not go against what is in the bible. didn't you know that even martin luther believed in the sinlessness of mary
Well, it sounds like the 'bottom line' here is that the Roman Catholic Church is desperatly trying to convince all of it's mindless pew puppets to believe that the womb of Mary is on every Roman Catholic altar disquised as a "tabernacle," and it contains real bread wafers which are all disquised as Jesus Christ the Son of God.
 
Well, it sounds like the 'bottom line' here is that the Roman Catholic Church is desperatly trying to convince all of it's mindless pew puppets to believe that the womb of Mary is on every Roman Catholic altar disquised as a "tabernacle," and it contains real bread wafers which are all disquised as Jesus Christ the Son of God.
you just cannot admit the biblical fact that there are sinless people in the world and Mary is one of them.
correction.... mary is the ark of the covenant and not the tabernacle.
 
you just cannot admit the biblical fact that there are sinless people in the world and Mary is one of them.
correction.... mary is the ark of the covenant and not the tabernacle.
You just cannot admit the true biblical fact that all have sinned except Jesus. Mary is not an ark at all.
 
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