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Ragnarok
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| Also the Da Vinci Code says that Mary Magdelene was not a prostitute and all that yahoo. What do you think about that? |
Not even the Bible says that she was a prostitute.
ETA: And every Biblical scholar I've heard so far has agreed with the assesment that she was not.
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ScathingKatana
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| Posted: Tue 06 Jun 2006 20:04 Post subject: |
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Exactly. So why has the church implied it?
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You are right about there being no direct mention of it in the bible.
However, she is often linked with the woman who bathed Jesus's feet with oil and dried them with her hair. In fact, in the sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great delared in a sermon that they were one and the same. This is possibly where the belief came from that Mary was a prostitute.
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| Posted: Wed 07 Jun 2006 20:24 Post subject: |
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A lot of people misinterperet what the bible says about her too.
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| Posted: Tue 20 Jun 2006 20:39 Post subject: ^ ^ |
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Many wise things are misinterpreted,(sorry if I spelled that wrong) especially when they are written in such foral languages as the Bible is.
And, I believe it's fiction. |
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| Posted: Sun 20 Aug 2006 6:23 Post subject: Re: ^ ^ |
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| TheFoxGirlKitsune wrote: |
Many wise things are misinterpreted,(sorry if I spelled that wrong) especially when they are written in such foral languages as the Bible is.
And, I believe it's fiction. |
Now that is a statement that could go bad. The Bible is not fiction. but it is possible that certain passages may have been tampered with or lost thru the eras. The Bible is after all an autobiography of on of the most famous prophets of all time. When they things like jesus healed the sick. This was 2000 years ago. they didn't have very effective medicine back then...his abilities coulkd have been exaggerated.
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ZucaTreangeli
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| Posted: Sun 20 Aug 2006 11:46 Post subject: Re: ^ ^ |
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| fenris wrote: |
| TheFoxGirlKitsune wrote: |
Many wise things are misinterpreted,(sorry if I spelled that wrong) especially when they are written in such foral languages as the Bible is.
And, I believe it's fiction. |
Now that is a statement that could go bad. The Bible is not fiction. but it is possible that certain passages may have been tampered with or lost thru the eras. The Bible is after all an autobiography of on of the most famous prophets of all time. When they things like jesus healed the sick. This was 2000 years ago. they didn't have very effective medicine back then...his abilities coulkd have been exaggerated. |
actually, the old testament isnt about just one person, not just about one prophet, its stories deal with hundreds of characters that experience many things.
The new testament points more towards a single character, Jesus, but even then is not only about Jesus, but still about many other characters aswell.
So the bible isnt one big autobiography about one person, its a collection of stories, tons of stories about many mayor and minor events.
How do you justify the "The bible is not fiction" argument, no realy proof has been found of it being more then unreal (as in, no proof has been found of the characters and the things in it actually happening, in many cases proof has been found that contradict many things written in the bible (especially counting the old testament in the creation of the world). |
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When I said autobiography I meant the new testement...
The New testiment is a completely different work from the old testiment. It is the collected works of a few of the apostiles and desplays their opinions and views. There is proof of the aposiles. So it would imply that there was a real jesus.
When you talk about your heros don't you speak of them in a greater light then they may really deserve?
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