To: HarleyD; Quix
This kind of argument is difficult. If verse 8 is proof that Jesus' mother had other children, is the opening verse proof that he once was caught in a flood while at the same time sinking in a slough?
This is not a gotcha question. How does one decide that one verse is to be taken so literally as to be proof of something while another verse is just a figure of speech?
412 posted on
06/16/2011 5:08:08 AM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: Mad Dawg
Of course . . . by
1. CONTEXT.
2. THE REST OF SCRIPTURE
3. HOLY SPIRIT.
And that verse is not the only one mentioning his blood half-siblings by Mary.
419 posted on
06/16/2011 8:08:03 AM PDT by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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