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1 | Please help me to find this out for this | Luke 1:27 | Emmaus | 23433 | ||
Shadow, You may find the following Scriptural explanation of the Catholic view of interest if you are still in dialogue with your Catholic friend. The Catholic position is not unbiblical. It is a matter of which tradition of interpretation you accept. Mary, Ever Virgin: Ezekiel 44:2 "And the Lord said to me, 'This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it shall remain shut." Early Christians recognized this passage as a prophecy of Mary's perpetual virginity, a doctrine that even the Protestant Reformers Luther and Calvin accepted. Gospel references to the "brothers and sister of Jesus" implying other children of Mary do not hold up under close examination. Matthew 13:55 is undone by Matt 28:1 and 27:55 and John 19:25 and Jude 1:1 which points out that James and Joseph and Jude, the "brothers of Jesus " are in fact cousins and the sons of another Mary. It is also interesting to note that nowhere in scripture is anyone described as a son or daughter of either Mary or Joseph other than Jesus. Only Jesus is ever described as the "son of Mary" of Nazareth. There are references to the brothers or sister of Jesus, but the original words used in those contexts can be found in other places in scripture where they are without doubt used to describe kin in a broader sense: i.e., Genesis 14:14 29:15, 1Cor 15:6, Rom 8:29, 1 Peter 5:2, Mark 6:4. In the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint: 1 Mac 9:44; 11:73; 12:27,28; 28: 13:52; 15:52; 15:16; 2 Mac.11: 20; Proverbs 13:21. In the Hebrew OT the same usage is found: Gen 14:14 and Gen 29:15. You can use the King James Version for these references except for the Macabees which are now left out of the King James, but which were in the original 1611 version of the King James, a fact she can even be confirmed through Protestant sources. If Jesus had brother and sister, why would he give his mother to John at the foot of the cross? This would be a serious violation of Jewish custom, in which the children were responsible to take care of their widowed mother. |
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2 | Please help me to find this out for this | Luke 1:27 | kalos | 23523 | ||
"Matthew 13:55 is undone by Matt 28:1 and 27:55 and John 19:25 and Jude 1:1?" Excuse me, but not one verse of Scripture is EVER undone by another verse. The Bible never ever contradcits itself. Hypothetically, it may be that the *interpretation* of Matt 13:55 is undone by other verses of Scripture. The interpretation of the verse -- but not the text of the verse itself. Since, not if, since all Scripture is inspired of God, then it is not possible that one Scripture contradicts or is undone by another Scripture. Is God inconsistent? Does He contradict Himself? Is he confused? I think not. |
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