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  1. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    It's because you haven't produced anything to support your explanation. Nothing other than a scenario that is without any evidence or even probability.
  2. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Again, it is up to YOU to give us some solid reason for accepting your thesis, considering that it's not indicated by the words of the Scripture. So far, all you've done is insist that a most unlikely line of thought was part of Mary's response to the archangel, but without you having...
  3. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    You keep saying this, but it doesn't hold up. It is entirely sensible and not at all peculiar for her to have said what she did and not been thinking at the same time of any "perpetual virginity." And that's not to mention the claim of Mary having already taken a vow of perpetual virginity...
  4. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    You said that before, but it's still not so. You insist that "there would've been no need to respond to Gabriel's announcement" as Mary did, but you also stipulate that she said what she did for an unusual reason of your own choosing. What she did say is perfectly normal and logical as it...
  5. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Again with the assumptions that are not based upon the Scripture! Although you want to believe that you know what Mary was thinking at that moment, her actual response to the archangel is what almost any young woman in her situation would have said or thought--"I'm going to have a baby?? But...
  6. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Excuse me for interrupting, but you've done this kind of thing several times now. Luke 1:34 does NOT say that Mary was a perpetual virgin! It says that she asked the archangel how it could be that she would conceive when she had never known a man. And Gabriel replied that the Holy One would...
  7. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    True, but that doesn't bear upon the issue we were discussing. Mary has found favor with God, she's going to conceive, and etc.--this does not imply everlasting virginity. We may describe the two of them m as an "unusual" couple, but that fact doesn't add up to perpetual virginity or anything...
  8. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    No, and it's as I explained earlier. The unusual situation would be to be married and never have sexual intercourse. If that were the case here, it might well be mentioned (and almost certainly would have been). But if they did practice it like almost all other married couples, there would be...
  9. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Sooo, at the least it could be either way, and the theory that they were not his blood brothers is without solid scriptural evidence as you had claimed it is.
  10. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    She had been married and had given birth to at least one child. Therefore, we must acknowledge that such a person certainly would not normally qualify as a perpetual virgin. But despite that, you want us to begin by stipulating that Mary MIGHT HAVE been a lifelong biological virgin at a time...
  11. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Because everyone knows how babies are born and that this process eliminates virginity, the question to be asked is not "Is there scriptural evidence proving Mary wasn't a perpetual virgin?" but rather "What evidence is there, if any, that proves Mary WAS a perpetual virgin?"
  12. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Truth is that no one has an unimpeachable claim on Scripture when it comes to these things. The Roman Catholic idea that Jesus was born through Mary's side like some ancient and miraculous kind of Caesarian delivery (minus any incision or scar) is quite a reach, but so is the basis for the...
  13. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Except that your explanations did not hold up. I explained to you why there's no reason to think that the Virgin Birth applies (and you couldn't rebut that), and I also explained that a commonly held opinion doesn't make other opinions about the same issue automatically be heretical. There is a...
  14. Albion

    Ozempic weight loss

    Considering the possible side effects and what the drug does to one's body, I would imagine that physicians do not recommend it to people who would just like to lose a few pounds
  15. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    If Mary could give birth to Jesus and remain a virgin, as the Catholic Church insists is the case, I would suppose that she could do the same with other of her children. That's a common, casual, use of the word, hence it is one of several definitions given in dictionaries, but it's not what...
  16. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Well, that's exactly what I was telling you--heresy is a rejection of church "dogma," which is a belief that has been formally identified by your church AS BEING a "must believe" concept. It is not just anything that the majority of Catholics think of as true or proper.
  17. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    It's generally accepted by Catholics, but that doesn't make denial a heresy. There are over 200 declared dogmas that must be accepted under the pain of heresy, but what you were addressing isn't one of them. And what is "generally accepted" certainly doesn't determine it. It's reasonable, but...
  18. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    It would be a heresy if it involved a denial of a Catholic dogma. This one isn't.
  19. Albion

    This heretical teaching is disproven.

    Yeh, that is one line of thought concerning this matter. Some Christians lean towards the other conclusion. But two things about this issue are certain-- 1) It's not been "proven" or "disproven," either way, and 2) It doesn't rise to the level of a "heresy" in any case. :)
  20. Albion

    Do Democrats fall in behind Kamala Harris?

    Getting back to the main question about Democrats falling into line (or not) behind Kamala... I would imagine that most will do so, except perhaps for those who are wise to the kind of claims that she and her people are using. But how many are in which category is hard to say. For instance...
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