Posted on 04/02/2018 11:06:57 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
There is nothing in scripture associating Mary Magdalene with being a prostitute.
Christ drove 7 demons from her and she followed him thereafter.
You’re supposed to pray to God, not to individuals, just because you think she has an ‘in’ with the Big Guy (being his baby-momma, and all)
Um...
When was she ever maligned?
She’s a saint.
Different Mary.
AP = Altogether Preposterous
Unless he’s suggesting something about Jesus and MM for which the Bible offers absolutely no proof...
...that their prayers for us may be heard by The Father in addition to our own prayers ...
I thought MeToo was about getting assaulted. Silly me.
Mary Magdalene being a prostitute is lore. Nothing in the Bible implies that.
Each year the progressive-recessives mount these sort of attacks on Christ at Easter time. They appear louder and more rabid each year.
One thing that should give pause to a non-believer of this narrative is how hard it must have been for these gospel writers to gravitate toward women as the first witnesses to the resurrection, as opposed to keeping the tale simple and, even as in some respects today, less controversial.
Why would they have made that up?
——The AP story asserts that the feast day proclamation helped rehabilitate Magdalene’s image from Pope Gregory the Great’s incorrect 6th-century assertion that Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and the sinful woman accused of adultery whom Jesus saved from being stoned to death were all the same person.-—
Hummmm....RCC tradition verses sola Scripture...
Pope Gregory wasn’t he the vicar of Christ?
How can he be wrong?
Mary Magdalene being a prostitute is lore. Nothing in the Bible implies that.
This verse implies it, given the context. of the time, not our time but theirs:
John 8:1-11 New Living Translation (NLT)
A Woman Caught in Adultery
8 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
11 “No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
KJV
8:4. This woman: Women caught in adultery were not normally brought to Jesus. The scribes and Pharisees were seeking to trick Him to see whether He would uphold the law—or defend the sinner. The...
God got Mary, the mother of Jesus, pregnant without first getting permission from Mary.
How does that look?
Sounds like a complete disregard for scripture.
Read Luke 1:38, and then reevaluate the “without permission “ drivel.
Mary was chosen for a great honor. She accepted with dignity.
What makes you think that passage has anything to do with Mary Magdalene?
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