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21 | Was Mary a virgin her whole life | Matt 1:25 | jawz | 47966 | ||
I think you will find that it is almost a direct quote from the greek scripture. You are interpreting it in exactly the same way as you interpreted the passage. Irenaeus is not stating anything more or less than what scripture says. | ||||||
22 | Was Mary a virgin her whole life | Matt 1:25 | jawz | 47979 | ||
Married to a beautiful Greek woman and currently working at the Centre for the Greek Language in Thessaloniki. I'm a sixth generation Aussie if that means anything. Tim, there is no point in the history of the Orthodox church that I can find where it was decided that Mary was ever-virgin. The Orthodox church maintains exactly the same traditions now that it has for nearly 2000 years. Church liturgy is filled with scripture such that every service is a recitation of scripture. If you go to a service in Egypt or Palestine or Greece, apart from the language the services will be almost identical, despite having been physically seperate for hundreds of years. This is the nature of the Orthodox church. All of them believe that Mary remained a virgin. |
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23 | Was James the son Alpaheus Jesus brother | Matt 10:3 | jawz | 48011 | ||
James the son of Alphaeus (aramaic for Clopas) is also the son of Mary, the wife of Clopas. He has a brother named Joses and they are two of the four "brothers" of Jesus. That they are called Jesus' brothers should not surprise us as Mary, the wife of Clopas is elsewhere described as the sister of the virgin Mary. Clearly they cannot be siblings as they would not both be called Mary yet they are still called sisters. Likewise, Elizabeth who is a descendant of Aaron is described as being the virgin Mary's cousin, yet Mary is descended from David and the tribes were not allowed to intermarry. Steve, I know you don't agree with me but you could at least admit to the existence of different views on this matter. |
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24 | What/who is "the rock" | Matt 16:18 | jawz | 46530 | ||
Ephesians 2:19-22 "Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit." Since Christ himself is the cornerstone on which the church is built, Jesus could not have been referring to Peter as that very rock in Matthew 16:18, so it follows that it was Peter's confession of Christ that he was referring to. Jesus never speaks of two cornerstones. This is how it was understood by the Apostles, Peter never took a position of leadership among them, and it is also how it was understood by the early bishops (popes) of the church in Rome who never accepted such a claim and in fact gently rebuked those who held the church in Rome in such high esteem. |
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25 | priests back then different now? | Matt 19:12 | jawz | 46707 | ||
Almost all the priests I know are married so I presume you are talking about the Roman Catholic church. In Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 7) he says that it is good for men not to marry but he is speaking of all men, not overseers and deacons. If you read the following chapters you will find no support for a celibate priesthood. Indeed I am curious as to how the Roman Catholics support this doctrine. 1 Timothy 3 1 Timothy 4 Titus 1 |
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26 | didn't Mary and Jiseph have another chil | Mark 6:3 | jawz | 47501 | ||
They were not however the children of Mary. I go into this in more detail in following up your other question "Was Mary a virgin her whole life?" | ||||||
27 | names of mary and Josoph | Mark 6:3 | jawz | 47952 | ||
James and Joses are the children of Mary the wife of Clopas (Alphaeus in Aramaic), not the virgin Mary. Mary the wife of Clopas is described as the sister of the virgin Mary in John 19:25 yet clearly they could not be siblings as no one gives their children the same name. Note also that Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist is described as Mary's cousin, yet Elizabeth is from the Levite tribe while Mary is descended from David so clearly they cannot truly be cousins. Jews were required to marry within their tribe. | ||||||
28 | jawz, Who's the carpenter, son of Mary? | Mark 6:3 | jawz | 48015 | ||
The only traditions that Jesus broke were the false ones created by the Pharasees. God makes it very clear that the family is extremely important. If you believe that Jesus broke this tradition you really need to explain why. | ||||||
29 | Is OT still applicable for NT believers | Mark 16:18 | jawz | 46529 | ||
To which I would add; 2 Timothy 3:16-17 "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." Remember that Paul is writing to Timothy at a time when much of what we call the New Testament had not yet been written down. It was primarily an oral tradition at that time. So when Paul refers to "all scripture", he is referring to the Old Testament. We must, however, understand the Old in the context of the New. Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." |
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30 | Can we say that all of the scriptures | 2 Tim 3:16 | jawz | 46542 | ||
Remember though that Paul was refering to the Old Testament when he wrote to Timothy. The New Testament as we know it did not yet exist. However I believe that it can also be applied to the New Testament. We must be ever thankful that Paul was in chains and not able to travel to the churches he wrote to, otherwise he would have taught face to face and much of what he said may not have been written down. In our culture of books and audio visual recordings, especially the immediacy of information at our fingertips via the Internet, we have never trained our minds to retain things as people did in Jesus' time. Almost everything then was passed on by word of mouth, without error, from the Apostles to the churches. The church grew and existed for sometime without the bible that we know today but that bible that we hold so dear does not contain a fraction of the things those churches heard and were taught. John 21:25 "Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written." |
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31 | My mom is praying to saints for | Jude 1:9 | jawz | 48124 | ||
Quote: "When she "ask" the Saints for intercessory pray, she is wrong because their are dead, and they will be dead until resurrection, if what we belive is true." oscar, I would like to direct you to what Jesus says in Matthew 22:31-32 "But about the resurrection of the dead--have you not read what God said to you, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' He is not the God of the dead but of the living." |
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