Amazing how such a foundational belief could be built on A SINGLE verse.
Funny, how the parralell verses in LUKE, are totally silent on this "key" issue.
That's part of what we both are discussing right now.
Amazing how such a foundational belief could be built on A SINGLE verse.
There are more, but the whole thing is that the whole model is built upon the idea of kingdom. That's why the role of Mary was accepted by the Church so quickly in the first century. Here, the idea of Queen is the wife of the monarch. The Biblical model of Queen is the mother of the monarch, for instance. And there is a whole raft of symbology involved throughout the OT and the NT as well.
Funny, how the parralell verses in LUKE, are totally silent on this "key" issue.
They are, and so is Mark, but let's put it this way - look at how different John is and how much we lean on Trinitarian proofs from John that are totally absent from the Synoptic Gospels. Also, can you tell me what all four Gospels say was written above the head of Christ on the cross? What really happened on Resurrection Day?
A lot of information was written in Apocryphal writings that did not make it into the NT - such as the Didache, Hermas, and Barnabus that the Church believed. Remember that Church tradition preceded the NT Scripture, not vice versa.