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@WesJB82 Mine is word for word NASB, well regarded as being of the most literal of translations, but even yours uses the word until which we all know what that means. Also, Matthew also goes on many times to mentioned both Jesus' mother and his brothers, which you need to dance around too

@MetaVaria First off the correct passage is “but knew her not until she had borne a son, and he called his name Jesus” Second, the Greek word heos, which Matthew used, does not indicate a change. So the passage is simply confirming that they had not been together before the birth.

I noticed several errors in Dr. Taylor Marshall's letter to Protestants. So I offer a corrected version below, addressed to Catholics. Dear Catholics, Your Bible contains 7 non-canonical books, added by the Council of Trent in 1546 over the objections of your own best bible scholar. Marshall says Jerome "changed his mind" about the deuterocanonical books around 402 AD in obedience to Pope Damasus. I've read Jerome's prefaces. This doesn't hold up. Damasus died in 384. Jerome wrote his famous Prologus Galeatus in 391. It excluded the deuterocanonicals as part of the canon. He labels these books as apocrypha. That's 7 years after Damasus was gone. That's not obedience to a living pope. The quote Marshall uses from Against Rufinus, which reads "What sin have I committed if I followed the judgment of the churches?", isn't about the canon. It's about Jerome's decision to translate from the Hebrew instead of the Septuagint. Rufinus attacked him for it. Jerome defended himself. In context, he's talking about translation method, not about which books belong in the Bible. And Jerome didn't stop his take. I've quoted these before, but here he is for the next 24 years of his life: 391: "Whatever is outside of these is set aside among the apocrypha." 398: The Church reads Tobit and the Maccabees "not for the authoritative confirmation of ecclesiastical doctrines." 405: Tobit is excluded from "the catalogue of Divine Scriptures." Judith is "considered among the apocrypha." 406: Cites the Book of Wisdom with "if one wishes to accept this book." 415: Still distinguishing Wisdom ("lest you gainsay this volume") from Ecclesiastes ("about which there can be no doubt"). This is one of his last works. Gallagher, a top scholar on Jerome on the canon, explains, "All of our evidence indicates that he always considered them outside the canon." Jerome never retracted. He never published a revised list. Never wrote "I was wrong." He translated Tobit and Judith under pressure, finished each in a single day, and attached prefaces denying them canonical status. That's not submission. That's a scholar doing what he's told while making sure everyone knows what he thinks. Dear Catholics, please drop the fan fiction that Jerome submitted to Rome on the canon. He held the same position from 391 until he died in 420. And Trent overruled him 15 centuries later by a vote of 24(Y)-15(N)-16(A). It passed by 44%. Not exactly a passing grade. Surely not one I'd write letters to Protestants about.

@WesJB82 Pick and choose this, catholic. "But he did not consummate their marriage *until* she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus." (Matthew 1:25)

@RickWMiller1 @AnalogRules61 @ProtPhilosopher That is the ugly truth and why Protestants have ingrained hate for Catholics into their followers for Centuries. They entire religion is based off one man picking and chosing what he liked and changing everything to fit his beliefs.

@IAmJakeHuffaker @ReviewsPossum Well said

@ReviewsPossum Kids Wife Mom Kids over wife because they matter more than everything Wife over mom because she is the kids mom and the kids matter more than everything

If your wife was someone worth marrying, she would want you to save the kids.

@reddit_lies This implies there are no MAGA women, but i cant expect redditors to think anything through

Reddit Moment

@HubPointless I loved Attack on Tians ending

When was the last time a mainstream big manga had a good ending

@blacknredtext @forskinquotes Lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh are inherently connected.

Submission by @forskinquotes

@CNviolations This was relatable to my wife so i saved and sent it to her I swear my humor is more advanced than this.

Oh boy... let's do this

@ErickLorinc Notice how everything is in focus

It used to look so real

@evolved117 @SpiderManVibe Notice how everything is in focua

@SpiderManVibe How does this look SO much better than anything in the last 10 years

@ThatPenguinGame Post puffle redesign so my interest was lost entirely

13 years ago today, Member Penguins could blast into the sky from a cannon, landing in the newly introduced Cloud Forest room, home to the Rainbow Puffles, now available for adoption. Non-Members, however, had to wait two more years before they could adopt one.

@Ilithor @accent_trace @Pirat_Nation Northern is more muslim

@accent_trace @Pirat_Nation I am not as familiar with the regions in India as I am with other countries, what is the significance of them being from the north? More prone to this kind of activity?

An Indian buyer purchased an RTX 5090 GPU for about $3,200 on Amazon, only to receive 1 kg of Ghadi detergent worth $2. Amazon investigated but denied the refund, claiming the correct item was shipped, despite the buyer's unboxing video evidence

@TheRealQuenny youtu.be/NgA1FZRsRt4?si…

Massive shoutout to Halo content creators that use renders instead of AI for their thumbnails

@CNviolations Every moron who said love is love back in 2014 was accepting this premise.

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@GreenTextRepost Wanting to be left alone is just libertarianism. Sounds good in high school but completely disregards the existence of children (as high schoolers do). The left is so totalitarian now that the libertarians are considered on the right, but they should all become conservative!

@Timcast No country does. Thats not what a right is.

Does Iran have the right to exist?

@CollinRugg Good sentence

NEW: Family of a Texas teen loses it as judge sentences him to 25 years in prison for robbing a convenience store. Judge Raquel West was seen torching 18-year-old Caden James Fontenette before handing out the sentence. "There was a time some years ago that there really wasn't even a question... State's attorneys were recommending youthful offenders probation. Let's give everybody an opportunity..." West said. "You don't have a good likelihood of being successful if I were to put you on probation... I'm going to sentence you to a term of 25 years." Fontenette pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery for a 2025 incident where he and two others robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. The suspects were caught on camera assaulting the store clerk. Fontenette will likely be in his 40s when he is released from prison.

@32nds Oh duh 😅

@MetaVaria Eventually people born before 1961 will not be voting anymore. Gotta play the long game.

If this is what it takes to get her to vote for it, it's fine.

@32nds Whats the sunset clause? 10 years from now or something?

@MetaVaria I mean, those people are (almost) all citizens. If the SAVE Act disenfranchises swathes of Vietnam Vets and Irish Grandmothers it's going to be a PR hit. And it has a built in sunset clause.