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To: TaxachusettsMan
"How do you get around with no eyes and no hands? "

Since you seem to be implying that Jesus words were symbolic, what do you think he was getting at in the passage about no titles? If he didn't mean what he literally said, what was he "alluding" to?




"After all, let the dead bury their own dead."

You see symbolism? Metaphor? Odd, since I'm sure you find him to be most literal when he refers to eating his flesh. Right?
30 posted on 04/07/2006 12:00:49 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Oh, don't worry about me, dear. We've a Magisterium with authority from Christ in an unbroken descent from Peter to instruct unerringly in matters of interpretation.

The symbolic/literal dilemma is entirely yours!

Goes with the territory of "private interpretation".

And you're welcome to it!

I just think you should spend your precious time minding your own confused spiritual business, rather than waste it trying to teach lessons to the Church that, by Christ's mandate, was Mater et Magistra long before you were born and will continue to be so long after you've been caught up in the Rapture!


37 posted on 04/08/2006 10:08:28 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
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