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To: Wonder Warthog

No, but they took Jesus with them, her husband went with her, they didn’t flee into the desert, she didn’t sprout wings, and there was no flood which was swallowed up by the earth.

My point is that there is an entire narrative. In any narrative, there will be things that match some real-world event. Sometimes those real-world events are the basis for the imagery in the narrative. But you should not take a narrative and use it to assert new physical realities, simply because some parts of the narrative are similar to real-world events.

The original poster suggested that because the woman was Mary, she must be a Queen because she was wearing a crown.

To make that claim, you have to be able to show how the crown is a physical reality, and not just imagery, while allowing other parts of the story, even in the same sentence, to be simply imagery, and not meant as reality.

BTW, Herod was not waiting for Jesus at the moment of birth either. Which is why he killed all children under the age of 2.


1,380 posted on 06/03/2008 5:14:08 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
"But you should not take a narrative and use it to assert new physical realities, simply because some parts of the narrative are similar to real-world events."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ROFLMAO!!! [Wipes tears of mirth from eyes]. A "Protestant" actually has the unmitigated GALL to make the above statemnt?? When the above is pretty much what all Protestant arguments boil down to?? Don't you know that the Earth is only 10,000 years old, and Creation took place over seven 24-hour days?? (y'see, Catholics "can" make ridiculous arguments about Protestants, as is done with drumbeat regularity in the reverse direction).

"The original poster suggested that because the woman was Mary, she must be a Queen because she was wearing a crown."

I'm sure the "other poster" was aware of ALL the aruguments (and biblical at that), which prove that Mary is indeed "a queen"--not just the argument from Revelation.

"BTW, Herod was not waiting for Jesus at the moment of birth either. Which is why he killed all children under the age of 2."

Herod was Satan's tool. Mary's very obscurity was one of the primary tools that God used to PREVENT Jesus's killing at birth. The Revelation narrataive is pretty much a point-for-point match for Jesus's birth, flight to Egypt, and return. God works in a "least effort" manner. For the most part, he uses "small miracles" to get things done, though He gets showy on occasion.

1,403 posted on 06/03/2008 6:50:30 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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