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Originally posted by PatrickHenry,
I rarely argue in the Religion and Philosophy Forum for the simple reason that proofs, if available, are always contestable and the ground seems to shift. |
A fair point. I had wondered why a man who spends more than 60% of his posting time in "politics" would have such strong religious opinions!
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| just because you have lengthy views contrary to scripture does not make you correct. Surely you can see this is a fallacy... |
That is a fallacy. But then I didn't say it, you interpretted it!
I shall explain my point more carefully: if you have ever studied 'how to determine if someone is lying' you learn various things, from body language, to what might be called 'story structure'. If someone tells you a story which is true, there are patterns present which indicate its truthfulness. Conversely, if their story is false, there are detectable patterns which indicate this too.
Now, it is of course not a hard and fast rule that
sometimes the presence or lack of certain types of detail may indicate the truthfulness or otherwise of a 'story'.
That's all!
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| I don't follow the Catholic teachings or defend them. |
Alright, then I'll stop blaming you!
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| Mary of Bethany was Lazarus' sister, Mary of Magdala was another of the New Testament Marys. Not a prostitute that I can tell, but Jesus wouldn't have cared about her past. He cared about her soul... |
I'm running out of time again, but I've just found more evidence to support my claims counter to your assertions.
It's going to require some explaining! As I said before, while Jesus and Mary were married but seperated (they had to live seperately most of the time) she was given a different rank than 'wife'. Instead she was called a 'sister', but in the devotional sense, as a nun might be.
I'm going to have to work on writing up an explanation of the way apparent names throughout the NT are often titles relating to rank, rather than actual names.
Anywho, Lazarus' rank was 'Father', and as was custom, the Sister was under the authority of the Father. Martha was perhaps literally his sister, but Mary was not.
Somehow I don't think I've argued that too well, or that you'll accept even a scrap of it! Ah well!