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To: Mrs. Don-o; BipolarBob
Impossible. Unthinkable.

Only to the fully indoctrinated Roman Catholic cult! Scripture tells us otherwise.

Instead of being mother of a loving family, including Jesus' BROTHERS AND SISTERS, they make the woman into an idol of worship. No, you cannot bow to someone, pray to someone, and make up ridiculous unfounded claims of apparitions and other demonic activity, and still say what is said by the Roman Catholic cult! They WORSHIP their made-up Mary... and that is sad, because they should be focusing on Jesus, not some stupid beads and vain repetitious words.

I am sorry that so many have been fooled over the centuries by one of Satan's greatest accomplishments. To the RCC, "smells and bells" are the most important things!

Matthew 22: ...24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. ...

220 posted on 05/30/2016 7:41:24 AM PDT by WVKayaker (What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate -D.Trump)
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To: WVKayaker
My whole argument is Scriptural.

Plus, you tell untruths. You say that Catholics worship May, and this is an old, old slander from the author of all slander. It is not true, and you should not repeat it.

There are many instances in Scripture which illustrate that the Biblical use of "brothers" and "sisters" doesn't necessarily mean full siblings from the same mother and father: the terms are used for near kin.

Take Genesis 13:8 for example. Here the word brother is being used to describe the relationship between Abraham and Lot, who were not biological brothers but uncle and nephew:

“So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers” (Gen 13:8 also 14:12).

Although St. Paul writes, “[Jesus] appeared to more than five hundred…brothers at the same time” (1 Cor. 15:6), we need not infer from this verse that Mary gave birth to more than 500 children!

These “brothers” are never once called the children of Mary, although Jesus himself is (John 2:1; Acts 1:14).

None of this is disputed by Protestant Scripture scholars, who are well aware of the Bible’s broad semantic range of "brother".

In context, the most likely scenario is that Joseph, a widower, had other children from a previous marriage, and that there was a cohort of cousins as well, who would have been called Jesus' brothers and sisters.

222 posted on 05/30/2016 8:33:42 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Obi-Wan, clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot." - Yoda)
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