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Hi Dave, Thank you for the rational and articulate response. You mentioned the great philosophical question of "do I want to know the date of my own death?". From your studies and seeking, do you find yourself to be more frightened about the end times or more prepared and hopeful? I'm not sure...

Hi everyone, I don't intend this to be a trolling or insulting post, but one born from genuine curiosity. To any of you working to predict the date of the rapture/second coming, how do you reconcile your efforts with the warnings given throughout the Bible, some by Christ Himself, that no one...

You obviously didn't read the article that he linked in the op, because that's exactly what he's saying.

I fully expected some sort of quasi-religious exta-biblical attempt to explain the beginning of God, but I ended up really enjoying your response to the question. “I will say you where God is from, when you will show me the beginning of a geometrical line” - I'm totally stealing this for my own...

I am curious to know, if you don't mind, what you consider to be "True Christianity". I don't think that Christianity of any sort, even the more ritualistic forms, can really be classified as a religion. Christianity to me seems to be more of a cultural way of life, something that is so...

okay, I'm getting a headache, so I should probably stop beating my head against this wall. You obviously didn't read my previous post in which I stated that I agree with you and most others that she probably wasn't a perpetual virgin. But, again, "TILL" does not mean that they did after, it...

Again, it does not say that he "knew" her after, just that he did not "know" her before. It is completely impossible to say with certainty that she was not a perpetual virgin. Furthermore, because I apparently have not made myself clear enough, I believe that Mary and Joseph probably did have...

No it doesn't. Firstborn simply means first, It doesn't, of its own accord, mean that there were subsequent children. If a person has one child, that child is simultaneously their first and their only.

Where in the Bible does it explicitly state this? There is absolutely no way to say with complete conclusivity that she was not a perpetual virgin, just like there is no way to say that she was a perpetual virgin.

You can say it as many times as you want, it won't change the fact that you are arguing against all accepted Biblical scholarship.

Come on, do you really believe the things that you are saying or are you just trolling us? You keep saying no to things that are indisputable facts accepted by both Catholic and Protestant scholars. The Hebrew Bible of today is the same as the Protestant Old Testament, but the Hebrew Bible of 1...

So you only accept information if it conforms to your preconceived beliefs? Both I and BreadOfLife listed several traditions found in the complete Bible. This statement proves that you have no idea what you are talking about. It is an established fact amongst Catholics and Protestants alike...

Exactly. The Hebrew Bible of today is different from the canon that was used at the time of Christ. The Hebrew canon prior to the 2nd Century A.D. contained all of the books found in the Greek Old Testament. It was only in the 2nd Century that the Jews closed their canon and eliminated the...

That is exactly what I've been saying. Worrying about what is not in the Bible is of far less value than worrying about what is in the Bible.

For Catholic traditions found in a complete Bible; Purgatory, prayers for the dead, and the perseverance of the saints are found in Maccabees. Most of the Christian understanding of the interactions between humans and Angles (Angelology) comes from the Book of Tobit. Confession comes from...

Well, i'm not sure how you can argue that they were never a part of scripture, since they were included in the Bible that was used in the vast majority of Jewish temples outside of, and yes, even within Palestine. It is the version of the Old Testament that would have been carried by the...

I agree with you that it is of no consequence if she did have sex and other children, and in all likelihood she did. But, there is nothing in the Bible that explicitly states that she did. The only evidence is the references to "Brothers" and "Sisters" which could mean that she had other...

The brothers mentioned in this passage are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas. Simon and Judas were most definitely not His actual brothers, so it could be argued that the use of the term "Brothers" here is a figurative reference to the Apostles. This could likewise be argued for the use of the...

I don't think that we ever "had" to know did we? I always felt that God wanted to keep that knowledge from Adam and Eve for their own protection (and by extension, ours).

Every Catholic tradition can be found within a complete Bible, not a stripped down version. The so-called "Apocrypha" was present in the Septuagint, which was translated by ancient Jews before the time of Christ, and many of them, such as the Book of Tobit, have also been found in Hebrew. The...