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To: MonroeDNA

That is the point of the episode.

It is frutile to chase after that crying statue of Mary, to seek after the creation instead of the CREATOR.

I am not surprised the Catholics miss this completely and instead see it as an attack on Mary.

Thank goodness I read Calvin and the English Puritans when I was little (was considering going Catholic back then for the ceremony).


327 posted on 12/28/2005 2:29:55 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas
Thank goodness I read Calvin

You obviously selectively read Calvin. That's your modus operandi.

"Helvidius displayed excessive ignorance in concluding that Mary must have had many sons, because Christ's 'brothers' are sometimes mentioned."
John Calvin Harmony of Matthew, Mark & Luke, sec. 39 Geneva, 1562

"The inference he [Helvidius] drew from it was, that Mary remained a virgin no longer than till her first birth, and that afterwards she had other children by her husband . . . No just and well-grounded inference can be drawn from these words . . . as to what took place after the birth of Christ. He is called 'first-born'; but it is for the sole purpose of informing us that he was born of a virgin . . . What took place afterwards the historian does not inform us . . . No man will obstinately keep up the argument, except from an extreme fondness for disputation."
Calvin's Commentaries, tr. William Pringle, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1949 Vol I pg. 107

"Under the word 'brethren' the Hebrews include all cousins and other relations, whatever may be the degree of affinity."
ibid Vol I pg. 283

Something else you've obviously skipped.

"Because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed." Luke 1:48 emphasis added for your much needed edification.

623 posted on 12/28/2005 4:45:48 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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