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Post by StAnne on Apr 14, 2014 13:53:23 GMT -5
... Many Protestants, including people like Martin Luther, have held to Mary remaining a virgin for the duration of her life. Yes. That's right. Always held and believed and passed down from the apostles - until a protestant interpretation came along some 1500+ years later. By what authority was that interpretation changed? I'm not going to argue that - just pointing that out - for your thought process ...
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Post by StAnne on Apr 14, 2014 13:56:49 GMT -5
What Does the Bible State?Two different Gospels accounts state Mary had other sons and daughters.1 These accounts even give the names of the sons. “Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ct_brothers.htmland ... One problem remains, if Mary the mother of James the less is the same as Mary the sister of the Virgin, how come she is called the wife of Cleophas by St. John, when we know that James the less is the son of Alphaeus?
Conclusion: James, Joses, Judas and Simon were maternal cousins of the Lord Jesus. They were the children of Mary, the Virgin's younger sister. They were the sons of Alphaeus (or Cleophas in Greek). Two of them, James the less and Judas became Apostles of the Lord Jesus. James became the first bishop of Jerusalem and is mentioned dozens of times in the book of Acts as well as in St. Paul's letters. He wrote the Epistle named after him. His brother Judas, also one of the twelve, wrote another Epistle named after him ... www.stmaryscopticorthodox.ca/content/articles/basics/jesus_brothers.pdf
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Post by snow on Apr 14, 2014 16:47:13 GMT -5
Learn something new every day! Where did King David say Jesus would have siblings? I'm intrigued. Psalm 69, " I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children;" John 7, "For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks to be known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world." For not even His brothers were believing in Him. So Jesus said to them, "My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune. The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil." So here we have brothers and sisters of Jesus not believing in him. They couldn't understand why He wanted to save the whole world but was secretive about the mission. And here Jesus tells them the world cannot hate them because they themselves are of the world. But anyone who does come to Jesus will themselves be hated, as He is hated.
All this paints a different picture of Jesus, doesn't it?If someone said that today, we would think they had a mental disorder that was paranoid with a persecution disorder.
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Post by Gene on Apr 14, 2014 17:47:34 GMT -5
Sorry, you hit the quote button too early!!!! Some might say you hit the "Create Post" button too early.
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