Posted on 01/11/2005 6:18:33 PM PST by malakhi
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Buddy.... you need new windows/insulation. That isn't your eyesight going, it's the ice building up on the inside of leaky single-pane windows.
Once again, Reggie shows himself incapable of understanding what is and what is not "Catholic teaching." There is no official Catholic teaching on Mary Magdalene. Not everything need be dogmatic. Neither is every pious tradition which may stem from legend evidence of evil intent.
Before you get to it, there were no "three wise men" and they didn't come to visit Jesus in the manger.
SD
Buddy.... you need new windows/insulation.
Not really. You get the sun beating down on one of those temperature transmitters, especially the wired ones, and it will tell you just about anything.
SD
Everything I believed as a child just came crashing down. Thanx. I suppose next you're going to tell me there was no Santa? :-)
I can accept that our versions of the Bible, both O.T. & N.T. are essentially correct and that is good enough for me.
Further, I believe your salvation is based on who and what you are, not what man made organization you belong to.
Mary guarantees your salvation if you wear the Brown Scapular.
Tut tut....
Sounds more like she gurantees that you won't "suffer eternal fire". Maybe they have some sort of "eternal lava" section in He11 for the unsaved who die wearing a scapular.
You will argue till the cows come home about the Aramaic word for ROCK yet you cannot produce one single piece of paper. In this instance the particular missing piece of paper is meaningless?
Tell ya what; if I accept your argument for the correctness of "pierced" based on the absence of evidence will you abandon your argument for the correctness of "ROCK" for the same reason?
(Or "cousin" for that matter).
You have no idea what you are talking about. I'm not aware of a single manuscript (for the book in question of course) that does NOT have the Aramaic for "rock". Transliterated, perhaps... but no question that it is there.
Also, there a big difference between being unable to produce a "manuscript" that nobody claims ever existed and assuming that more modern MT manuscripts reflect an earlier document when there is no evidence to support the claim - and plenty to refute it.
As soon as you supply proof that the usage in Isaiah did mean "virgin".
We are wasting our time. I defer to the OT scholars who insist that Isaiah doesn't presage Mary and the virgin birth of Jesus in the first place.
BigMack
I know NOTHING!
Becky
:-)
This has to be the twentieth time I've told you that just because you can find no meaning, that doesn't mean there isn't one there. Perhaps if you opened your mind you would see it?
Mary guarantees your salvation if you wear the Brown Scapular.
Maybe so. But that depends on what "wear" means. Simplistic and reflexive anti-Catholic folks tend to take this on the most literal level, in order to make claims of superstition. Kinda like you're doing.
Policemen sometimes talk about a brotherhood of all those who "wear the uniform." That doesn't mean if some nut impersonates a policeman in order to pull over young women, he is entitled to the rights and privleges of the police fraternity.
Wearing the uniform does mean something and imposters and scam artists don't count.
SD
Same argument really. The Greek translation in use by the Jews of the time translated the word as "virgin". BEFORE there was a theological reason to do so. Obviously SOMEBODY with a solid knowledge of the text (who had NO reason to support the Christian argument because there WERE no Christians) felt that "virgin" was appropriate.
We are wasting our time. I defer to the OT scholars who insist that Isaiah doesn't presage Mary and the virgin birth of Jesus in the first place.
That makes it sould like "OT scholars" all insist this. That simply isn't the case.
It isn't the SIZE of the agreement that matters, its.....
...actually.. I guess it IS.
There is no place in my yard where I could place a thermometer, which I could read from the inside, which doesn't get the sun.
Sounds more like she gurantees that you won't "suffer eternal fire". Maybe they have some sort of "eternal lava" section in He11 for the unsaved who die wearing a scapular.
Is there some small possibility of your embaressment concerning some of the beliefs about Mary and her words which have come from Fatima?
Does the RCC teach that The Fatima story is authentic?
IT was a JOKE numbnuts.
Personally, I don't use the things. I just send my oldest son barefoot across the lawn to get the paper. I can tell how far below freezing it is by the color of his feet.
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