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To: narses
just as all heresies are much later corruptions

That's just it. In the Bible, I can understand the arguments about brothers versus cousins. And I can understand the argument about the verb where "Joseph didn't know his wife until she gave birth". Either way, perpetual virgin or virgin until she gave birth but not after, they both can be argued from the Biblical passages.

But I can't understand throwing out the heresy word. A heresy is a belief against a core doctrine of the Christian faith. Read the creed, Jesus was "born of the virgin Mary". There is no core doctrine about what happened with Mary afterwards. It's not about Mary...

Additionally, the angel told Joseph not to worry about taking Mary as his bride. If the marriage was never consummated, was it really a valid marriage? So Joseph could have asked for an annulment?

But either way, it does not impact my salvation.

23 posted on 05/31/2014 5:21:33 PM PDT by Tao Yin
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To: Tao Yin

>> “ It’s not about Mary.” <<

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Except to a pagan that worships Easter by Mary proxy, thus Mary then becomes all, and her son just a frill.
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195 posted on 06/01/2014 10:21:33 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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