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To: wagglebee; adiaireton8
My question would be to the Protestants, how did these reformers miss something so important?

They didn't "miss" something; it was a non-issue. They simply believed that Mary remained a virgin. However, you will not find Protestants running to pray to Mary because there is no original Church teaching on this. I would suggest that all this devotion to Mary is a new teaching after the Reformation that has spun totally out of control. Now we see images of Mary on grilled cheese sandwiches, moldy tunnels and corn flakes even though no one knows what she looks like. Sorry if this sounds like anti-Catholic hate speech.

515 posted on 11/02/2006 10:43:59 AM PST by HarleyD ("A man's steps are from the Lord, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24 (HNV))
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To: HarleyD

I believe that the images of Mary on grilled cheese sandwiches and whatever are nonsense, the whole issue reminds me of an old Johnny Carson episode when he interviewed a woman who saw people like Abraham Lincoln in potato chips.

Marian apparitions, however, have been noted throughout Church history and they often seem to be to people who have no preconceived notion or bias.


517 posted on 11/02/2006 11:12:11 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: HarleyD
They didn't "miss" something; it was a non-issue. They simply believed that Mary remained a virgin.

And why is it so important now for Protestants to believe that she didn't? Scripture is silent on the subject of her having other children. Surely Luther, et al were aware of the verses about the Lord's "brothers." Other than a desire to minimize Mary, is there one good reason that some Protestants insist that she had other children?

521 posted on 11/02/2006 11:43:59 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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