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To: adiaireton8
" Another argument from silence."

Your track record grasping logical errors isn't very good. If you have a problem with what I said, address the specifics. What I posted was valid evidence and I pointed out at the end of my post I am unable to draw a conclusion from it, or any other I've seen. Others have used weaker evidence to come to the conclusion Mary remained ever virgin and stamped it as fact. There's no evidence at all for the light through the window miracle. It appears to me to be pure invention.

881 posted on 12/08/2006 7:33:54 PM PST by spunkets
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To: spunkets; Forest Keeper
Your track record grasping logical errors isn't very good.

That's an ad hominem.

If you have a problem with what I said, address the specifics.

I did. I pointed out that your argument is an argument from silence. One cannot justifiably determine that Mary did not remain a perpetual virgin from the absence of a statement that she did remain a perpetual virgin. But that's what you did. So I pointed it out.

Otherwise, you could justifiably conclude that Mary did not persevere in faith until death from the absence of a statement that she did persevere in faith until death. But no Protestants believe that Mary is in hell. So it just shows how you selectively pick and choose the arguments from silence that serve your pet theological theory.

-A8

883 posted on 12/08/2006 7:46:05 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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