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Why Catholics telling Mother Mary that she don't have any children?
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from A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, by Dave Armstrong, Sophia Institute Press, © 2003
The Perpetual virginity of Mary
Pope Paul IV, in his Constitution, Cum Quorumdam Hominum, of 1555, expressed the constant teaching of the Catholic Church concerning both the virgin birth of Jesus Christ and the perpetual virginity of Mary:
We question and admonish all those who . . . have asserted, taught, and believed . . . that our Lord . . . was not conceived from the Holy Spirit according to the flesh in the womb of the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, but, as other men, from the see of Joseph . . . or that the same Blessed Virgin Mary is not truly the mother of God and did not retrain her virginity intact before the birth, in the birth, and perpetually after the birth. (In Neuner and Dupuis, The Christian Faith, 217. See CCC, pars 484-486, 496-498, 502-506, 510, 723 (for the virgin birth); pars 499-501, 507, 510, 721 (for the perpetual virginity of Mary))
The Greek word for brother in the New Testament is adelphos. The well-known Protestant linguistic reference An Expository Dictionary of the New Testament Words defines it as follows:
1. Male children of the same parents . . .
2. Male descendants of the same parents, Acts 7:23, 26; Hebrews 7:5 . . .
4. People of the same nationality, Acts 3:17, 22; Romans 9:3 . . .
5. Any man, a neighbor, Luke 10:29; Matthew 5:22, 7:3;
6. Persons united by a common interest, Matthew 5:47;
7. Persons united by a common calling, Revelation 22:9;
8. Mankind, Matthew 25:40; Hebrews 2:17;
9. The disciples, and so, by implication, all believers, Matthew 28:10; John 20:17;
10. Believers, apart from sex, Matthew 23:8; Acts 1:15; romans 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Revelation 19:10 (the word sisters is used of believers, only in 1 Timothy 5:2) . . . . (Vine, An Expository Dictionary of New testament Words, Vol. 1, 154-155.)
It Is evident, therefore, from the range of possible definitions of adelphos, that Jesus' "brothers" need not necessarily be siblings of Jesus on linguistic grounds, as many commentators, learned and unlearned, seem to assume uncritically. Be examining the use of adelphos and related words in Hebrew, and by comparing Scripture with Scripture ("exegesis"), one can determine that most sensible explanation of all the biblical date taken collectively. Many examples prove that adelphos has a very wide variety of meanings:
In the King James Version, Jacob is called the "brother" of his Uncle Laban (Gen. 29:15; 29:10). The same thing occurs with regard to Lot and Abraham (Gen. 14:14; 11:26-27). The Revised Standard Version uses "kinsman" at 29:15 and 14:14.
Use of brother or brethren for mere kinsmen: Deuteronomy 23:7; 2 Samuel 1:26; 1 Kings 9:14, 20:32; 2 Kings 10:13-14; Jeremiah 24:9; Amos 1:9).
In Luke 2:41-51, ... it is fairly obvious that Jesus is the only child....
Jesus himself uses brethren in the larger sense: Matthew 23:8, 23:1; 12:49-50.
The term Firstborn means pre-eminent and nowhere assumes later siblings, etc.
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By praying the Hail Mary.
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What do you call those who worship Mary mother of Jesus christ?
Roman Catholics
Who worships Mary - Catholics or Protestants or Jews or Muslims?
Catholics are wrongly accused on a regular basis that they worship Mary. Catholics are always quick to say that this is not true. Protestants see the high honor that Catholics give Mary as idolatry. Catholics are not worshiping Mary by honoring her. They are just following Jesus' example are honoring his mother. No Catholic can give more honor to Mary than what Jesus gave to her.
Who was Mary according to the Catholic Church?
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Is Blessed Virgin Mary a saint?
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Maria mater gratiae?
Maria Mater Gratiae is a Latin/Greek that means Mary, Mother of Grace or Holy Mother Mary. It is a common saying among Roman Catholics.
What is the difference for between a Bloody Mary and a Virgin Mary?
Bloody Mary was the daughter of King Henry VIII and a murderous queen of Great Britain. Mother Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ and is considered by many Christians, especially Catholics, to be the Queen of Heaven.
What are ways to show your love to Jesus mother Mary?
Why do catholics devote themselves to Mary? Christians worship Jesus Christ and that he died on the cross for our sins. But how i look at it, catholics worship mary because he was her mother. that doesnt make sense. She didn't do anything except for give him birth, while Jesus was cruciied and died so we could live. i think catholics shouldn't devote themselves to mary. Not at all.
