If Mary was a virgin, then how does Catholicism explain how Jesus had brothers? Are you sure that the Church didn't add that due to some neurosis over marital s*x, which there was a lot of neurosis among the church and they couldn't imagine Mary being anything other than a virgin.
Can someone explain why Jesus wasn't married when he was a Jew and he would've been expected to be married and it would have caused contention to his family and been a scandal in his community back then if he wasn't? Paul would have mentioned Jesus was celibate if he was. Why didn't he? The evidence suggests that Jesus was married and the Church censored the Bible, potentially destroying Gospels to hide this fact.
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I've never heard of Mary bring a perpetual virgin in all my teachings in Catholic school. Sounds some some apocrypha
Specifically in Jesuit and Franciscan teachings I had at least. Regardless I think it's less relevant than the entire concept of the Immaculate Conception
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That's concerning honestly. Did you also not know that Catholics believe she ascended directly into heaven?
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Of course as it is an important matter of faith of Christ, not biblical literalism
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Neither is in the Bible. Idk how you made it through Catholic school without learning all the mysteries of rosary though.
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We did the rosary a couple times a year outside the convent the school was at. For the life of me I don't remember anything about Mary's eternal virginity beyond spiritually. I don't recall hearing it at Assumption Mass beyond that either
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They don't even believe Jesus ascended into heaven, they believe he spent some time in heck.
It actually reflects the scapegoat ritual in Leviticus which is such a fricked up ritual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell#:~:text=The%20term%20'Harrowing%20of%20Hell,of%20the%20Old%20Testament%20period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat#:~:text=In%20the%20Bible%2C%20a%20scapegoat,the%20sins%20of%20the%20community.
In the Bible, a scapegoat is one of a pair of kid goats that is released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities, while the other is sacrificed. The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community.
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I mean they think he went to heck basically on the warpath but yeah.
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No loving God would require his son to take on the sins of the world.
Really, people should handle their own sins.
It's an issue I have with the whole religion. I reject the concept of heck in my beliefs.
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Now you know how Jesus became Lucifer. Jesus was the scapegoat.
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how did he become lucifer if lucifer was around before he was born on earth?
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Lucifer isn't Satan.
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if lucifer isn't satan, then how is it at all important that Jesus is described as lucifer which is just the word for morning star?
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