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To: Kolokotronis

This is quite an event to be left out of the Bible. Don’t see it in Peter, don’t see it in James, none of the apostles spends any appreciable time mentioning Mary.

If this event was true, it would be in the gospels or Acts.


5 posted on 08/15/2009 7:18:13 AM PDT by dartuser ("If you torture the data long enough, it will confess, even to crimes it did not commit")
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To: dartuser

“If this event was true, it would be in the gospels or Acts.”

Why? What does the last verse of +John’s gospel say, d? All sorts of things happened that aren’t in the NT. The fact is, the men who decided what you would read for the NT believed exactly this. The yardstick they used to decide what Christians today would read was Holy Tradition and that’s what this comes from. Put another way, the scriptures don’t define Holy Tradition, Holy Tradition defined the scriptures.

I have always found it surprising that Western Protestant Christians can’t seem to understand what appears so simple to us in The Church.


6 posted on 08/15/2009 7:24:24 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: dartuser
If this event was true, it would be in the gospels or Acts.

Only if you have deluded yourself into believing that Scripture is a comprehensive record of everything that occurred, which it isn't.

"Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of His disciples, which are not written in this book. " John 20:30

"But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written." John 21:25

37 posted on 08/16/2009 6:53:46 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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