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To: SnakeDoctor
Luther and Calvin may have agreed with the Catholic Church about Mary’s perpetual virginity. I still don’t.

Would it be fair to say then, that when making an act of submission regarding doubtful propositions, the one to whom you submit is...you?

111 posted on 12/17/2010 11:16:15 AM PST by Jim Noble (It's the tyranny, stupid!)
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To: Jim Noble

Not at all. I submit to God, His Son and the Holy Spirit. I submit to that which I can verify is information from the Holy Spirit, or opinions which are justifiable given verifiable information from the Holy Spirit — i.e. Scripture and justifiable inferences/interpretations therefrom.

I do not believe that Luther, Calvin or the Catholic heirarchy have any special interprative powers beyond that of any educated Christian theologian. I will take, on faith, that the Bible is correct and is the work of the Holy Spirit ... but if you want me to accept that the extra-Biblical elaboration of any particular man is correct, you’re going to have to justify it logically given the information we can verify comes from the Holy Spirit.

I find no scriptural justification for believing in Mary’s perpetual virginity, or that she was any less in need of Salvation than the rest of us. I have no reason to believe these are not simply inferences, interpretations, or elaborations drawn from the mind of the interpreters rather than the will of the Holy Spirit.

SnakeDoc


132 posted on 12/17/2010 12:45:17 PM PST by SnakeDoctor ("They made it evident to every man [...] that human beings are many, but men are few." -- Herodotus)
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