To: presently no screen name; OLD REGGIE
my parents would say, 'our household', Nothing uncommon about that. There are different ways of saying the same thing Yes, and the way the Evangleists chose was the most natural way to refer to them, "adelphoi/brothers". Were the Evangelist writing in modern America, they would probably write as you suggest.
Incidentally, if you think Mary having other children is important for your salvation, and you believe in Sola Scriptura, why do you think none of these passages definitively picks one child and say, "X, the son of Joseph and Mary, the mother of Jesus, who is Jesus' younger brother according to the flesh"?
3,667 posted on
11/30/2010 5:36:15 AM PST by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: annalex; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
Incidentally, if you think Mary having other children is important for your salvation, and you believe in Sola Scriptura, why do you think none of these passages definitively picks one child and say, "X, the son of Joseph and Mary, the mother of Jesus, who is Jesus' younger brother according to the flesh"? Likely because they didn't think that people were such idiots that they plain meaning of *brothers* and *sisters* and naming the brothers would be lost on them, wouldn't be enough, and that they'd need to spell it our more clearly than that.
3,678 posted on
11/30/2010 6:30:23 AM PST by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: annalex; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
Incidentally, if you think Mary having other children is important for your salvation, Nobody said that and nobody implied that. WE don't claim that Mary is co-Redemptrix. That's your territory.
Why do you think that Mary being perpetually virgin is relevant to YOUR salvation?
3,688 posted on
11/30/2010 7:53:29 AM PST by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: annalex; presently no screen name
"Incidentally, if you think Mary having other children is important for your salvation..." I have yet to see a single person say that Mary having other children was important for their salvation. Please name one.
Is the Perpetual Virginity of Mary important for your salvation?
Is the belief in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary important for your salvation?
Ditto the Bodily Assumption of Mary.
3,733 posted on
11/30/2010 2:19:35 PM PST by
OLD REGGIE
(I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: annalex
"X, the son of Joseph and Mary, the mother of Jesus, who is Jesus' younger brother according to the flesh"?
God's Word is not a 1st grade reading primer like 'see Spot run'.
Incidentally, if you think Mary having other children is important for your salvation,
Mary has absolutely nothing to do with anyone's salvation. ONLY JESUS! It's ALL about JESUS! Why don't you know that, Annalex?
and you believe in Sola Scriptura
YOU BETCHA!
3,736 posted on
11/30/2010 2:50:12 PM PST by
presently no screen name
("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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