Unfortunately fordman has no Truth in him. What fordman and other Catholics have done is twist the Scriptures to prove their Mary Worshiping Catholic Church only has the Truth.
Are you kidding me?? I think you have it a$$ backwards. For example...take a look at all the differnt threads within this site of Protestants/non-Catholics arguing amoung themselves with their personal interpretations of Scripture. Now thats whats twisted!
And again as far as the Catholic Church worshipping Mary. Show me anywhere in the Mass where we worship The Blessed Virgin Mary. Show any where the Magisterium
of the Catholic Church teaches us to do so. (Do you even know what the Magisterium is? If not, don't be afraid to ask me.) Or how about the Catechism of the Catholic Church? You all accuse us of following it more than the bible. (which is total bunk) If that were true, surly one would think it would tell us Catholics to worship Mary in it. It would be very easy for you to find out. Go to the online version of the Catechism, type in "Mary worship", and see what you come up with.
Jesus never built His Church on Peter and Peter never was a Pope because Jesus sent Peter to bring the Gospel to the Jewish people not the Gentiles. If anyone would have been the Pope it would have been Paul because Paul was sent to bring the Gospel to the Gentiles.
It is well known that Paul rebuked Peter in his epistle and much has been made of this. Yet, Scripture does not undo Scripture; the authority given to Peter by Christ so
clearly established in the New Testament is not undone if Paul had a disagreement with Christ’s Vicar. In fact, the Holy Spirit may have enshrined this incidence in Scripture (along with examples of Peter’s sin or weakness) to clarify the nature of the papacy: the Pope is not God and the Pope is not perfect. He can sin, and in fact all of them have sinned. And he can certainly make practical decisions that are imprudent or possibly just not popular with everyone!
Despite what has been written about the incident of Paul rebuking Peter for not eating with gentiles, it is not a foregone conclusion that Peter sinned here – he may have simply unintentionally offended. In any case, it was Peter that first opened the Church to non-Jews and was the first to baptize them – there’s no evidence he practiced some sort of deep-seated prejudice. If he did, though, it’s clear that Christ didn’t remove him as head of the Church. The fact that Paul refers to him as
Cephas in that passage underscores the fact that Paul acknowledged his authority over him.
"If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?" – Cyprian, A.D. 246
So you see Kenallan, this argument, like so many (virtually all?) of your objections to Catholic doctrine, is
based on the unhealthy and illogical practice of pitting Scripture against Itself: reading in the small and "proof-texting" by literally claiming that one part of Scripture (the most overtly Catholics part) is contradicted and "outdone" by another part. But that is foolishness; all Scripture is true and free from error. And Catholic doctrine weaves it all into a harmonious whole with no contradictions.
Also how can we ever believe what fordman says anymore when we have caught him twisting the Scriptures to justify his Worship of Mary as his God?
Give an example
Luke 11:27-28 is all about Jesus telling us that if you have received His Scriptures and obey then then you are Blessed, but fordman twisted them around to say these verses were talking about Mary only even though God used the word "those".
Is this "your" personal interpretation?
Do you see how fordman and other Catholics twist the Scriptures to justify their Worship of their God Mary?
Ah.... I think not. Here again we have your practice of "proof-texting" that encourages "reading in the small" and actually pitting Scripture against Scripture, hiding and distorting many teachings of the Bible. In other word...twisting!
Pax Christi
"from henceforth, all generations shall call me Blessed." ---Luke 1:48.