Combustible
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It doesn't say. You are right you can imagine whatever you want to retcon the early writings so they fit in with a dogma made up over a century later, but it's not an idea even hinted at in the canonical texts.
The Virgin Mary
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Combustible
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There was no original Aramaic. Both Paul's letters and the Gospels were written in Greek.
Idaho
blah blah blah
So do Christians have faith in Jesus, or just in Paul?
Idaho
blah blah blah
That's a bit unnecessary tbh. You can make a point, even a barbed one, without just insulting someone straight out.
Hey, it’s not my insult. I tried arguing with him, in fact, but he insisted that he was the Son of God and what he says goes.
PTK
Paul Kegan
The King James Bible was produced under the reign of King James IV/I, not during the rule of Oliver Cromwell.
It is not in “Cromwellian” English (of which there is no such thing), it is in Early Modern English.
A person of your calibre ought to not be making personal insults of that nature.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Ah, I see. Thank you. My post was a typical case of someone who is ignorant about something thinking that they knew better.
Humberto
minor kerfuffles ensue
A quick google says the Greek for 'brothers' was used also for male relatives and not even blood relatives. That Mary didn't neccessarily have other children.
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Paul Kegan
That the the second most noteworthy thing about Mary was that she was/is an Eternal Virgin tells you that sexual intercourse was/is seen by the church as sinful.
PTK
Paul Kegan
"Sexual intercourse in marriage is not sinful."
And there is free speech in a dictatorship, as long as you agree with the government.
Sexual pleasure without the possibility of procreation is regarded as sinful the Roman Catholic church, irrespective of whether or not the couple were married in a Roman Catholic church.
The marriages of those married in other churches, or in non-Christian religions, were not recognised. My mother was regarded as a sinner for marrying in a registry office.
The Roman Catholic church once regarded male masturbation as worse than rape, because in the latter case there was a chance of procreation, whereas masturbation was gaining sexual pleasure with no possibility of conception.
Aladdin
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I feel I need to put in a good word for Mary. 
Daily...for the past year and a bit ..I have said the Rosary prayer before I sleep. It was a practice I used do as a child..and teenager but I had gotten out of the habit for quite a long time. Then I just was at such a low in my life that was not being helped greatly by meds..they helped but it was temporary. I felt anxiety all the time. I started to say the Rosary...and found that the act of saying it was helping me. This was aside from the emotions that started to well up in me as I went through the various mysteries....
I reached a state quite quickly where felt very calm. Vey much at peace and that I had some purpose.I don't exactly know my purpose....and I don't even know how to describe how it felt.
I would ask that posters not get into any arguments about my post Its personal.. I would ask that my post not be ripped to pieces.
It's just a positive post about someone (Mary) whom I believe in and who has helped me in some way.
Carry on..
Daily...for the past year and a bit ..I have said the Rosary prayer before I sleep. It was a practice I used do as a child..and teenager but I had gotten out of the habit for quite a long time. Then I just was at such a low in my life that was not being helped greatly by meds..they helped but it was temporary. I felt anxiety all the time. I started to say the Rosary...and found that the act of saying it was helping me. This was aside from the emotions that started to well up in me as I went through the various mysteries....
I reached a state quite quickly where felt very calm. Vey much at peace and that I had some purpose.I don't exactly know my purpose....and I don't even know how to describe how it felt.
I would ask that posters not get into any arguments about my post Its personal.. I would ask that my post not be ripped to pieces.
It's just a positive post about someone (Mary) whom I believe in and who has helped me in some way.
Carry on..
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
One of my favourite lessons when it was my turn to do "ethics" when I was still teaching secondary was "Is Odin Santa Claus?" that I gave in the run up to Yule.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
A heady combo of token concessions to the pre-Christian pagans and extreme violence.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Jesi.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Has it been painted recently, and if so, by whom?
PTK
Paul Kegan
The thing that annoys me in particular about Starmer removing that portrait of Thatcher in Number Ten, is that it was painted by Luke.
Jesodes
bcuster
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Happy Birthday to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
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The Meaning of Mary's Nativity « Catholic Insight
The feast of the nativity of the Virgin Mary, which falls on the 8th of September, is a splendid moment wherein we as Christians ponder, with the saints and the Popes, the deeper meaning of this commemoration. Let us start with St John Damascene (born c. 675, Damascus—died December 4, 749, near...
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ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
What does one buy for the woman who has everything?
PTK
Paul Kegan
Why isn't heaven a republic? Are we not all equal in the sight of god?Happy Birthday to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
The Meaning of Mary's Nativity « Catholic Insight
The feast of the nativity of the Virgin Mary, which falls on the 8th of September, is a splendid moment wherein we as Christians ponder, with the saints and the Popes, the deeper meaning of this commemoration. Let us start with St John Damascene (born c. 675, Damascus—died December 4, 749, near...
