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To: BlatherNaut

My dear friend, it is rewriting history and rewriting the Bible when the following false claims are made:

1) That Mary was ALWAYS a virgin. Wrong! She was happily married to Joseph and they had other children mentioned in the Bible.

2) That Mary herself was conceived of an immaculate conception. Sheer nonsense. There is no mention of this in the Bible.

3) That mandatory clerical celibacy is something advocated in the Bible. Wrong! Priests in the Bible were married men. As were priests, bishops, and popes in the Catholic Church for at least the first ten centuries of the Church’s existence.

As Sgt. Joe Friday would say, “Just the facts,please.”


30 posted on 05/07/2014 8:03:06 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
1) That Mary was ALWAYS a virgin. Wrong! She was happily married to Joseph and they had other children mentioned in the Bible.

"After the birth of our Lord, although the Gospels do not give us many details of His childhood, no mention is made of Mary and Joseph ever having other children. Never does it refer to the "sons of Mary" or "a son of Mary," but only the son of Mary.

This point is again corroborated at the crucifixion scene: Before He dies, our Lord says to Mary, "Woman, there is your son," and then to St. John, who is definitely not a blood brother, "There is your mother."

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0090.html

2) That Mary herself was conceived of an immaculate conception. Sheer nonsense. There is no mention of this in the Bible.

"Proof from reason"

"There is an incongruity in the supposition that the flesh, from which the flesh of the Son of God was to be formed, should ever have belonged to one who was the slave of that arch-enemy, whose power He came on earth to destroy. Hence the axiom of Pseudo-Anselmus (Eadmer) developed by Duns Scotus, Decuit, potuit, ergo fecit, it was becoming that the Mother of the Redeemer should have been free from the power of sin and from the first moment of her existence; God could give her this privilege, therefore He gave it to her. Again it is remarked that a peculiar privilege was granted to the prophet Jeremiah and to St. John the Baptist. They were sanctified in their mother's womb, because by their preaching they had a special share in the work of preparing the way for Christ. Consequently some much higher prerogative is due to Mary. (A treatise of P. Marchant, claiming for St. Joseph also the privilege of St. John, was placed on the Index in 1833.) Scotus says that "the perfect Mediator must, in some one case, have done the work of mediation most perfectly, which would not be unless there was some one person at least, in whose regard the wrath of God was anticipated and not merely appeased."

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674d.htm

That mandatory clerical celibacy is something advocated in the Bible.

The Lord's perfect example is sufficient.

33 posted on 05/07/2014 8:50:00 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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