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To: wagglebee

I would have thought that debates over adelphoi, stepbrothers and anepsios were beaten to death by now.

A literal translation of the Greek text does not decisively dispose of the issue.

What remains is centuries-old tradition dating back to the first century set against the desire to bring the Blessed Virgin down a peg.


1,173 posted on 06/02/2008 5:13:59 PM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Philo-Junius

You haven’t been here long enough, NOTHING is “beaten to death” around here. Protestants recycle FIVE basic anti-Catholic arguments (the Blessed Mother, Peter/Papacy, the Eucharist, Tradition and Purgatory) like clockwork.


1,178 posted on 06/02/2008 5:18:43 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Philo-Junius

I have no desire to bring the authentic Mary down a peg at all.

I do have a desire that folks calling themselves Christian would avoid a lot of the hoopla, caricature, hogwash that centuries of fantasies have built up around Mary and her images.

My interest is in the truth.

Mary cannot be taken down a peg anyway. She has whatever station God has allotted to her. And I assure you, it is NOT the Queen of Heaven as construed by the RC edifice. I’ve never ever heard a hint of such from the many heavenly visitations I’ve read.

And, there’s NO Scriptural support for the RC perspective and a good deal of clear straightforward as well as a lot of inferrential Scirptural support for the Protty perspective on it.

I’ll take Protty desires to insure authentic truth about Mary over RC edifice compulsions to make fantasies dogma plastered willy nilly onto Scripture

most any day.


1,236 posted on 06/02/2008 7:40:33 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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