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Actually, I'm done. We can't have an intelligent discussion without agreeing on what constitutes evidence and what constitutes argument.

Well, I didn't mean to speak for eight billion people. I was just expressing my own opinion that Mary's having other children vel non is uncertain. And you haven't given me an opportunity to reject your "evidence," because you haven't present "evidence." Only argument that the context of...

I wouldn't dream of speaking for you, my friend! But you don't have "evidence." You have an interpretation of Scripture,

The word adelphos is broad enough to embrace cousins. Have you considered that?

I'm sorry, but I'm certain you are wrong. If the James of Galatians 1:18 -19 is not one of the original Twelve, your entire house of cards collapses. As it should. By the way, I am not saying that Mary had other children. I want to be clear on that. I don't know that she did. Nobody does...

Hang fast to your beliefs! I'm not Catholic, and I don't understand why the KJV not being the first English translation makes one whit of difference here, but I always appreciate someone who stands up for their faith, even when it is under attack (which, by the way, is something you should be...

You are mistaken if you think Paul considered James "one of the Twelve apostles." There is nothing in Galatians to support it. This tells us that Paul considered James an apostle, not that he considered James one of the Twelve apostles like Peter (who, by the way, is not referenced as one of...

The context indicates no such thing. Paul didn't consider James "the Lord's brother" to be one of the Twelve -- for all the reasons I mentioned.

I'll give you one, if you don't mind. You say that in Gal. 1:19 I disagree. We don't have the first damn clue how many people Paul considered "apostles" when he wrote to the Galatians. Readers of the gospels -- which Paul never read -- are so used to equating "apostles" with the twelve...

Well, what I said was not in quotes: And it was not intended as a translation. It was intended to portray the verse's message. ""He was made to be sin" BY GOD. I have no doubt of that. Do you?

Again I disagree. God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us.

I disagree. I think God did exactly that. Twice. Once with imputing Adam' original sin to his progeny. Once with imputing our sin to Christ. The first was a curse on all "flesh" and the second reversed the curse. I agree with you that we have free will and can choose either to commit or...

My apologies. I thought your interpretive question came from a translation of Hebrews, not Romans. I can see that the original language of Hebrews, be it Greek (as I suspect) or Hebrew (as you think), matters not at all to the question of whom Christ died for.

Buckle up, @PTA. You are about to draw out of the woodwork the anti-Catholic faction -- quite vociferous on this site -- who will lambaste Catholicism with all their might!

The interpretation of the text is Indeed the most important thing. But for that very reason, any addition of a further interpretive hurdle -- such as "Paul was a Hebrew, so his letter to the Hebrews was translated to Greek, making it even more difficult for us to translate to English" - should...

A government run ministry of truth is the last thing I would favor! But courts are different. There is objective, provable truth, and there is objective, provable falsity determined by the courts every day in fraud, misrepresentation and Lanham Act cases. We might allow one campaign to sue...

There isn't a "market" of public opinion trading in deception. How does the consumer of the information tell whether truth or falsity is presented?

Meanwhile, to the OP, what if anything can or should be done about deceptive political ads?

I simply asked @Brakelight a question and used HIS terminology, which was "tradition," to ask him to clarify. Take it up with him.

You raise an interesting question. Most scholars think Hebrews was written in Greek originally, not in Hebrew. (Its quotes of OT passages are all from the LXX, something that would likely not have been the case if the epistle was translated from the Hebrew language.) Why do you think...