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To: Secret Agent Man
I get the teenage reference -- my father's 89 going on 16 ... Without going into specifics, let's just say he's a handful! I wouldn't exactly say I'm angry with him, but he certainly does try my patience : )
Sinless people do not bring false charges against another person, much less the perfect and sinless Son of God.
I don't understand the meaning here of "false charge." What did Mary say that was false? What did she accuse (charge?) Jesus of? I'm asking this with reference to my curiosity about equating sinlessness with omniscience. If, as the Bible translation explicitly states, Mary did not understand, how could anyhthing that she said be construed as sinful?
142 posted on 04/14/2011 2:08:08 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: eastsider

No offense, you are fixated on the lesser of the points I have raised, and up to this point you have ignored entirely.

Someone who lives a perfect and sinless life would not have behaved the way Mary behaved towards Jesus in this circumstance. By saying “How could you treat us this way?” is saying that Jesus did not treat her and Joseph properly. Insofar that he stayed at the temple without their knowledge, that it took them three days of frantic (anxious) searching to find Him. Yet Jesus says they should have known where He was, in His Father’s house. Basically his refute is saying there was no basis for them to feel like He did anything wrong (which He didn’t).

But again, you spend no time on the other points I raise, for the second time. Which are far stronger evidence and not refutable, which is why I believe you don’t reference them at all.


170 posted on 04/14/2011 5:44:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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