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Ronald Nolette: "This is incorrect. John was not well verses in pagan symbology or with the machinations of pagan deities. He was very familiar with the wwritten history of a dream had by Joseph which shows this same woman who represents the nation of Israel. You pontificate from ignorance...

But she is persecuted for giving birth to Jesus. Reference Herod's slaughter of male babies. So the reference to Jesus as the author of spiritual Israel still includes Jesus' mother portrayed here in goddess-like imagery.

So you are saying that John's vision of Mary in Rev. 12 expressed in goddess imagery is an act of idolatry.

The precursor of later exalted visions of the Virgin Mary is found in Rev. 12, where she is portrayed as the spiritual mother of True Israel, a status created by her Son. Note the 12 stars in her crown: "A great portent appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her...

THE CASE FOR MARY'S LEVIRATE MARRIAGE TO JOSEPH'S BROTHER, CLOPAS (1) In his Commentary on John John Chrysostom, bishop of Antioch, accepts a Jewish Christian tradition that, after Joseph' death, Mary marries Joseph's brother Clopas to fulfill the obligation of levirate marriage (see...

Enoch: "Since you are mischaracterizing evangelicals, looks like you are under some kind of delusion." \ As a longtime evangelical pastor and theology professor, I'm confident that I grasp evangelical attitudes better than you, who insipidly pontificate about the demise of evangelicalism with...

Heart2Soul: "Furthermore your assessment of the 2 mentioned above is based solely on your subjective view.... therefore, it can not be relevant at all." No, it is based on their irrational virulent anti-Catholic posts and consistent refusal, despite my pleas, to at least consider the relevant...

Addy: "Actually the OP is full of ACCUSATORY ASSUMPTIONS about Evangelicals... Catholics do not seem to like them very much...REALLY???? you guys know an awful lot about Evangelicals." That's because I am a lifelong evangelical, who can speak from many decades of encounters with them and who...

No, what is hilarious is your inability to season your failure to recognize that the OP is not about the Catholic Catechism, but about texts in God's Word that pose preliminary questions before we even get to Catholic beliefs. You seem so gob-smacked by these texts that you feel constrained to...

Addy: "Let me be clear... My repulsion is not toward scripture... but rather towards the institution of the Roman Catholic Church." But this thread is not about Catholic institutions; it is about PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS about God's Word BEFORE we even get to Catholic institutions. So why are you...

THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE IMAGE OF BELIEVERS AT THE PROTECTIVE CITY WALL: (1) The Role of the Righteous Standing in the Gap Made in the Wall by Enemies: "And I sought for anyone who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before Me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but...

Well, you could have removed your offensive posts on your own, but tellingly you didn't! And your admitted "repulsion" when asked to consider biblical texts that don't fit your anti-Catholic agenda is even more telling! Hence, the relevance of my judgment that you and Enoch will say...

No, you must learn to read. The OP posed questions about the meaning of particular texts in God's Word that evangelicals like you and Addy find so threatening to your anti-Catholic agenda that you can't even apply God's Word to your faith! The OP does not ask about Catholic dogma, but rather...

Notice how Enoch and fundamentalists of his ilk will say practically anything to divert attention away from critical engagement with foundational biblical texts that inform Catholic understanding of their distinctives. Enoch, season your penchant for irrelevant bluster by actually engaging the...

Enoch: "Those questions are ignored and rightly so." Those questions simply focus on basic biblical texts before which evangelicals typically freeze like Bambi in the headlights. So your comment suggests a myopic focus on just those prooftexts cited to support your narrow theological agenda...

As a lifelong evangelical, I note that we evangelicals typically ignore the ensuing set of questions that should precede discussion of Catholic doctrinal distinctives: I. QUESTIONS PRELIMARY TO A DISCUSSION OF CATHOLIC CONFESSION OF TO PRIESTS: (1) Why do evangelicals spend so little time...

Best prayer posture? A farmer once testified in church, "I did my best praying, head-down at the bottom of a well!" :)

Why do so many Christians ignore an oft repeated biblical command for worship--lifting up our hands? Many Christians get angry when pastors ask then to lift their hands and praise the Lord, arguing that doing so feels showy and unnatural to them and they don't like being manipulated. Paul...

The Greek "euchomai" and its cognate "proseuchomai" are standard NT words for "prayer." Note how Luke uses "euchomai" to refer to the prayer to Paul of a visionary man who is not physically present with Paul. The visionary Macedonian man "prayed ("euchomai") to him [Paul, not God!], saying...

DPMartin: "all i know is God makes the choice, simple as that, how i feel has no bearing on that. this subject isn't about me is it? its supposed to be about the Lord God." No, read the OP: This subject is about the grounds of doubt and that places the focus and burden squarely on you. DP...