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Old 11-14-2004, 12:19 PM   #1
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A particularly famous example is the arguments you see that the claim that Jesus had brothers and sisters (which challenges the perpetual divinity of Mary" is based on taking the gospel passages literally, whereas the "brothers and sisters" "obviously" refers to, I dont know, "colleagues", "followers" etc, but that these words DO mean "brothers and sisters" when used in other uncontraversial passages.
"Brothers" of Jesus have the same Father but not the same Mother. Mary is Perpetual Virgin in the perfect image of mortal beauty around the globe and will always appear as a local Virgin to those who find favor with her. That Mary is the "perfect image of mortal beauty" is because she was taken from [her] "man" to be the Alpha (beginning) of that man and is therefore local.
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Old 11-14-2004, 12:33 PM   #2
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Not sure if this belongs in GRD or BC&H...

I have an honest question for biblical literalists regarding something I've always been curious about: why does so much fundamentalist/evangelical eschatology demand less literal rigor from Revelation than it does from Genesis?
My answer is that evangelical fundamentalists never matured to make revelation a thing of their past. It is futuristic only until real life experience takes us through the metaphor just as it took them into the Gospels (where they claim to have at least 'one foot in the door' when 'their eyes were opnened').
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Old 11-14-2004, 03:59 PM   #3
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"Brothers" of Jesus have the same Father but not the same Mother.
Thanks;this is a great example of special pleading and how it reduces scholarship to utter triteness.
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Old 11-14-2004, 04:36 PM   #4
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You don't think a 2000 year old unresolved paradox is trite?
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