My Questions to Protestants 8-29-08

This is the next installment of Questions for Protestants. As usual, these were written while bored at work (usually have good epiphanies there)

Today, fellow readers, I would like to discuss the idea of Marian devotions, a concept that many Protestants find hard to wrap their heads around, despite what the 10 Commandments tell us, what the early Church Fathers have handed down and Scripture alludes to regarding this matter. Therefore, I shall ask several pointed questions that follow a logical and linear progression.

1) Is Mary not the Mother of God?

2) Therefore, is Mary not the Mother of Christianity?

3) By proxy, is Mary not the Mother to us all as brothers and sisters in Christ?

4) Referring to the 10 Commandments, should we not give honor to our parents, in this instance our Mother?

5) Is Christ not the King?

6) Referring to the Book of Kings, we can see that mothers are listed with their sons, the kings. Does not the Bible refer to Mary in much the same way?

7) Can any Protestant, regardless of denomination, show me the place in any form of Catholic dogma or document that says Mary is to be worshiped?

8)If the Church came before the Bible and the earliest Protestants acknowledged the perpetual virginity of Mary and other such Marian doctrines/devotions, why do most scions of these original Protestant movements disagree with their early leaders and adamantly disavow the Catholic position?

So how about it, my Protestant brethren, does anyone have an answer for me?

Well, I have to go to work now. The next installment will be on prayers to/with/by the saints.

Until next time...

-N8