@picard_luk80656@1TrueChurch@EddieJamro84189 John's Apocalypse uses what's called polyvalent imagery. The woman is Mary and the New Israel, the Church simultaneously. This is why Mary has always been seen in Christianity as an icon of the Church. It goes back to the Apostles.
There are 31.102 verses in the Bible. None of them say that God is a Trinity nor that a doctrine must be explicitly spelled out by Scripture explicitly to be true.
Much of what we believe as Christians is implicitly drawn from Sacred Scripture because it is written in a typological fashion with much deeper implications because it was written from a Hebraic perspective.
For example, Luke presents Mary as the Ark of the New Covenant, and John presents Mary as the New Eve.
They don’t explicitly come out and say as much explicitly because the Gospels weren’t written as didactic catechisms with Platonic categories.
@ProIllustr3A777 Jesus spoke Aramaic with his disciples. Jesus didn’t name Simon “Petros.” He named him Kepha. Petros is the masculine Greek translation for Kepha.
See John 1:42 (Jesus renames Simon as Cephas), 1 Corinthians (1:12, 3:22, 9:5, 15:5), & Galatians (1:18, 2:9, 2:11, 2:14).
You have to *interpet* Scripture. The New Testament was written assuming a living, breathing church audience who knew what Paul meant when he said: "was made sin for us" or when Jesus said, "This is my body," or when Peter said, "Baptism, which corresponds to this now saves you."
It's all about the interpretation of Scripture.