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To: Sherman Logan
Jewish culture and Law did not glorify celibacy in the way later Christian and Catholic culture did.

Well, Jesus (Mat 19:12) and St. Paul valued it (1 Cor. 7:1-7).

Regardless, there were the Essenes.

29 posted on 09/21/2013 5:24:30 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Check out Mt 12:49, Mk 6:3, Luke 8:19, Jn 7:3,4,5,10, referring to Jesus’ brothers ( adelphos- male sibling in the greek text, not adelphotes - a brotherly relation as in brotherhood).

Also, James, the Lord’s brother (adelphos) in Mt 13:55. Mk 6:3, Lk 24:10, Gal 1:19, Judas in Jude 1, James some more in Acts 1:13, 12:17, 21:18, Gal 2:9, and, James (the entire epistle of).

I have no doubt that these bothers had the same father as each other, and the same Mother, the Mother of Jesus.

One would have to construct an awful lot of sematic exceptions in order to purpose that these “brothers of the Lord” were really just members of the “brotherhood of Jesus....

The only reason to declare Mary a lifelong celibate woman is to worship her. Not to simply state what the language means in plain “greek”.

Seek it out, study of your own accord, test all things, ask for guidance from the Holy Spirit (if you are born again, otherwise your just stuck with your own intellect).

Best;


34 posted on 09/21/2013 6:09:17 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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