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To: x_plus_one

The Catholic view of Marry makes it hard to explain Jesus’ brothers and sisters though.


154 posted on 08/02/2009 12:04:38 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
"The Catholic view of "Marry" makes it hard to explain Jesus’ brothers and sisters though."

The Church purports that Mary remained blessed, not that she remained a Virgin.

157 posted on 08/02/2009 12:12:20 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: AppyPappy

The “Catholic” view offers two alternatives: 1) that brothers and sisters referred to his extended family, or cousins’ 2) that James et al. were the children of Joseph by a previous marriage. But there is also the cofusing way the gospels were written. Just try to sort out who the several Marys were. The Scriptures are always alluding to people well-know to the audience but totally unknown to us. In other words, their identity is unknowable to us.


210 posted on 08/02/2009 6:41:51 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: AppyPappy
Catholic tradition also holds that mary was not the first or last wife of the elderly Joseph....

Jewish tradition didn't officially reject multiple wives until several hundred years ago (I think)

272 posted on 08/03/2009 11:28:17 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Only ACORN could put a long legged mac daddy, quasi-muslim, communist freak into the white house...)
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