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34 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” ESV This has nothing to do with the future. Mary was giving her current state. A paraphrase in modern english would be "How can I get pregnant, I not having sex with anyone". It is about what her life was like at that...

Nobody questions that Mary was a virgin when Jesus was born.

And it never says that she didn't have biological children. It does, however, say that Jesus had brothers and sisters and that these brothers and sisters accompanied Mary on various occasions which indicates they are closer than "cousins" or kinfolk. The natural reading of the text is that...

You certainly implied that if Mary did not remain a virgin (or had other children for that matter) that she would no longer be pure. This is a dim view of sexuality in marriage. Sex is not "using" each other. It is a Holy and blessed mutual expression of love and devotion that is a gift of...

And how does Married sexual relations make someone impure? Married sexual relations are Holy and Pure.

I've read many Catholic explanations from Scripture about the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. Honestly, they just don't add up unless you are predisposed to believe it already. At best, Scripture is silent on the issue. And you have to believe "until" doesn't mean "until" and "Brothers and...

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I'm talked about people groups that make up substantial populations in some countries. Not each individual person but groups of people that have not heard about Christ. They are usually subgroups/tribes in countries like India and Nepal. The Joshua Project is one of many missions...

I don't agree with this. According to the Joshua project, there are 7,403 unreached people groups throughout the world. The definition of unreached people group for the Joshua Project is : An unreached or least-reached people is a people group among which there is no indigenous community...

Depends on what kind of faith and what the faith is in. Are we saved by intellectual faith that is a mental assent that Christ is who He says He is? Nope, even the demons believe that much Are we saved by making a "profession of faith"? Nope, we profess things all the time that we don't...

I thought the council of Trent specifically called the deutero books canonical From EWTN They are the following: Of the Old Testament, the five books of Moses, namely, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; Josue, Judges, Ruth, the four books of Kings, two of Paralipomenon, the...

So now I'm really confused. You said you agree with Trent that they are all Canon and now you are saying they shouldn't be used to establish doctrine. It is my understand that Trent removes any distinction between the traditional Canonical books and the Deuter books.

In post #44 you said Canon - for establishing doctrine Ecclesiastical - testimony of doctrine, lessons in the word of godliness I NEVER SAID THE ECCLESIASTICAL BOOKS WERE THE SAME AS CANON So when you point out over and over and over again that they said "are not consider canonical" I am NOT...

Then why are you trying to differentiate between Ecclesiastical and Canonical?

You avoided the question? Do you hold the Catholic position of the Council of Trent that the books knows as deuterocannonical books are part of the Biblical canon?

Different church fathers quoted many different things as "scripture". There were varying opinions. The council of Trent says; "If anyone does not accept as sacred and canonical the aforesaid books in their entirety and with all their parts, as they have been accustomed to be read in the...

I've followed this thread and the previous thread on the status of the deuterocanonical books. It seems to me that ya'll are having the same arguments that have been going on since at least the 3rd Century. Many ante-nicene fathers had their own ideas about what constituted God Breathed...

It is a fact that purgatory (and praying for the dead) is not part of the Mosaic Law. Therefore, for Jews, it is a tradition of men. Christ's offering is for all time and is effective for all time. We are spiritually perfect because we have been given the righteousness that comes by faith...

A Judaism that had strayed from the Orthodox belief of "what we call" the Old Testament. Just because some Rabbi came up with something (probably because he was influenced by Greek pagan philosophy himself) 50 years before Christ doesn't make it true. As a matter of fact I would put it under...