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1 | JESUS CHRIST | Matt 13:55 | Emmaus | 79955 | ||
Johhny, If my position on the bretheren of Jesus is just a Catholic thing, why did Luther, Calvin and Zwingli, those Sola Scriptura, Bible Alone, Reformers hold the same position that I do? If you want to know, go tho this link and see the explanation. http://www.catholic.com/library/Brethren_of_the_Lord.asp And by the way, it is not Catholic doctrine that Mary did not see death. You misunderstand that also. Emmaus |
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2 | JESUS CHRIST | Matt 13:55 | Truthfinder | 79964 | ||
Hi I am going to jump in here and add that if Mary intended to remain a virgin forever, why did she get engaged? Well, “It may be presumed,” answers Pope John Paul II, “that at the time of their betrothal there was an understanding between Joseph and Mary about the plan to live as a virgin.” However, the Bible presents the matter differently. Matthew’s account says that Joseph “had no relations with her until she bore a son.” (Matthew 1:25, Catholic New American Bible, italics ours.) Notice again the words "until she bore a son." After the birth of Jesus, the marital union of Joseph and Mary was by no means virginal. One proof of this is that later in the Gospel account, Jesus is shown to have brothers and sisters.—Matthew 13:55, 56. Were these merely cousins? Well these words were originally recorded in Greek. Hence, the question arises, How would Greek-speaking people have understood the original terms here rendered “brother” and “sisters”? The New Catholic Encyclopedia (Vol. 9, p. 337) admits: “The Greek words . . . that are used to designate the relationship between Jesus and these relatives have the meaning of full blood brother and sister in the Greek-speaking world of the Evangelist’s time and would naturally be taken by his Greek reader in this sense.” Thus, while the Bible states that Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus, there is no basis for claiming that she lived as a virgin for the rest of her life with Joseph. Truthfinder |
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3 | JESUS CHRIST | Matt 13:55 | Emmaus | 79966 | ||
Truthfinder, I am still waiting for that verse which decribes anyone as a "son of Mary" or "daughter of Mary" other than Jesus. And why would Mary seem perplexed when the angel told her she would bear a child if she expected to have marital relations, being already bethrothed. There would be no reason to be perplexed, it would have seemed perfectly normal, unless she did not expect to be having marital relations after she married. Emmaus |
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4 | JESUS CHRIST | Matt 13:55 | Truthfinder | 79969 | ||
Hi Emmaus, Same difference said differently. Jewish custom for marriage was to have children. But let us assume differently. To determine whether Mary had perhaps decided to remain a virgin before the angel Gabriel visited her, we must look at matters from the standpoint of the time in which she was living. For a married woman to be childless in that time was viewed as a reproach. Hence, when Elizabeth became pregnant with her first and only child, John, she said: “In these days the Lord is acting on my behalf; he has seen fit to remove my reproach among men.”—Luke 1:25, New American Bible. So, for Mary to have gotten engaged to Joseph with the intent of remaining a virgin would have meant making herself an object of reproach. How could Joseph have consented to an arrangement whereby his wife would come under the reproach of barrenness? Why would he deliberately want to forfeit the opportunity to have an heir to carry on his name? The Hebrew Scriptures with which he and Mary were acquainted in no way recommended such a thing. They pointed to parenthood as something desirable. For example, at Psalm 127:3 we read: “Sons are a gift from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward.” (New American Bible) The only arrangement known to the Israelites whereby a man or a woman might remain a virgin was by continuing in the single state. Perplexed! Yes, the angel told her she was pregnant with a son and she knew she was a virgin. She understood Gabriel’s revelation as already pregnant. Truthfinder |
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