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To:
af_vet_1981
You continue to advance this already disproven claim.
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05/20/2017 2:57:03 PM PDT
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ealgeone
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To:
ealgeone
You continue to advance this
already disproven
claim.
Stating that one does not believe something does not
disprove
it.
A Consistent and Unbroken Tradition
The question could be inverted. Why not believe in her ever-virginity? The Eastern Church has witnessed to the perpetual virginity of the Theotokos steadfastly for two thousand years and shows no sign of tiring. In the West, the idea was largely undisputed until late in the Reformation; even Luther and Calvin accepted the tradition.
Indeed, to suggest (a) that the tradition about her perpetual virginity could have been introduced after apostolic times, (b) that this tradition would have gone little noticed by a Church in the throes of questioning everything about what it believed in the first millennium, (c) that such a novel tradition should be considered inconsequential enough to pass without discussion before it became universally proclaimed, and (d) that such a tradition should have no discernible literary or geographical origin and yet be universally accepted from very early in the Church's history, is to form a very unlikely hypothesis.
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05/20/2017 5:41:39 PM PDT
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af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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