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He was engaged to Mary, that tells me the generation he was in, but the RCC bumps him up one generation.

Actually he is bumped up two or three or more generations by many writers and his age is nothing more than speculation on both sides.

if some one wants to prove the Catholic,s wrong there is enough scripture to do that in plain words.

We do not have to add to and twist scripture and ignore other scripture to prove them wrong.

Mathew 23:9
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Exodus 20:8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Gen 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Matthew 6:5
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Matthew 6:7
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Tithing?
Not even mentioned during the setting up of the early church or after.

Matthew 6
1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

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“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

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But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

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so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

You will not hear most of the Churches even mention these things because most of them are prevalent in many Churches.

I do not see how any one could read rev 17 even with out the help of any one else and not see the roman church as the great harlot, if that is true that makes all of the other denominations the daughters of the great harlot.

So being it is absurd for people to be arguing over trifles that can no way be proven, maybe just satans way of keeping our minds off of the real issues.