To: terycarl; count-your-change
cyc:
If is upon frauds like this that the belief that Joseph had children before his marriage to Mary rests and the pictures of the infant in a cave with animals round about. According to this second century fraud Salome thrusts her finger into Marys nether parts to verify Mary is a virgin and such nonsense as that that forms that so called deposit of faith. Throw in the tradition that Annas house (Marys mother, unnamed in Scripture) was picked up by angels and transported from the Middle East to Italy with some stops along the way. This is what passes as tradition equal to Scripture. tc:Wow, your demonination certainly teaches some strange things, I've never heard of any of them....better be looking for a new denomination!!!
On the contrary, it's Catholicism which perpetuates those myths.
.....better be looking for a new denomination!!!
1,929 posted on
01/18/2013 4:55:34 AM PST by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: metmom; terycarl
I'm not surprised that many of the traditions and myths that form Catholic belief are odd sounding to the readers (their problem not mine) but I'll keep trying to educate them.
The Infancy Gospel of James is recognized as a fraud by Catholic scholars and still it is offered as proof that Joseph had children before those with Mary.
Point out that it is a fraud and the messenger is attacked.
Not a surprise.
1,959 posted on
01/18/2013 10:17:48 AM PST by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: metmom
On the contrary, it's Catholicism which perpetuates those myths. .....better be looking for a new denomination!!! no they don't, and Catholicism is not a denomination, it is true Christianity...
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