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To: blue-duncan
No, that's what's called a reasonable inference from the facts.

No, because you are ignoring the extra-biblical facts preserved in Tradition as well as made explicit in the fathers.

Your claim that comparing Jesus's baptism and Mary's ritual purification is comparing apples and oranges simply begs the question. I already showed that the Law does not necessitate impurity; it is given to deal with impurity. Therefore, obedience to a ritual cleansing law does not prove impurity, just as Jesus's baptism does not prove His impurity.

-A8

465 posted on 12/06/2006 1:01:01 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8

"I already showed that the Law does not necessitate impurity; it is given to deal with impurity. Therefore, obedience to a ritual cleansing law does not prove impurity, just as Jesus's baptism does not prove His impurity."

You just gave your opinion that the Law does not necessitate impurity without any factual basis for the conjecture. If there was ever "begging the question" it was your conclusion.


466 posted on 12/06/2006 1:09:08 PM PST by blue-duncan
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