re: South LA is a Catholic Heavy Area...Besides the LP. Why so?

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It's just hearing her beliefs and knowing the Bible, some of it is bad doctrine.

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Mary being a virgin is based on a passage from Isaiah, although it's not clear if that passage was saying "young woman" as opposed to "virgin." Then the church decided Mary became a temple maiden (or something like that) and as such took a vow of abstinence, and that the other children mentioned were Joseph's kids and not hers (half siblings of Jesus).

I think that's the gist.

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I am not arguing whether she was a virgin when she conceived Jesus. That I believe very much. The virgin birth was necessary so that He would not inherent man's sinful blood. But why would Mary get married if she was going to be a virgin forever? In the verse I mentioned earlier it said she brought forth her 1st born son. Doesn't that indicate she had others later? Why can't we just take the simple explanation and not assume that Joseph had kids with someone else or that it was Jesus's cousins?

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If Mary was sinless, she would not need a Savior.

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Full of grace means without sin which also means no original sin. Her Savior saved her from the stain of original sin.

btw, there is no word for cousin in Hebrew. Brother could mean blood brother or cousin.

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2. Mary received grace just like all believers.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Rom 3:23)

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It's late so I'll leave you this link. God Bless
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Catholicism is very inaccurate Biblically

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Protestant religions didn't start until 1500 years after the death of Jesus. Many Books of the Bible themselves were written hundreds of years after his death. Then a king came along and made his version of the Bible hand picking what he thought should be in it. But you were raised protestant, so there's no way the Catholic version of beliefs could be as legitimate as yours .

I was raised Catholic, but think all religions are quite a bit off. Especially in Martin Luther's times, the church was probably corrupt. But it irks me to hear any protestant act holier than thou (especially southern). I absolutely hated seeing the damn free speech alley protesters with their kids out there knowing that they are teaching them that what you learn in college is bad, you don't need no book learnin, Jesus is the answer (and I realize all protestants aren't like these loons).

So although I don't prescribe to any religion, I will stand by Catholicism over protestant religions. Mostly because the Church is actually more accepting of change and understanding (for example it doesn't take the hard stand against evolution....at least not exactly)

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I am Catholic too and I have never understood the insecurity that Baptists and Pentecostals have in regards to Catholics.

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Maybe we don't want daygo grease getting on our nice clothes?

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Same reason the kkk was so prominent in that area along with St. Helena parish. It's just a lot more standard southern protestants rather than louisiana catholics.

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i have never seen a KKK member or meeting in the LP.

Ever

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Protestant religions didn't start until 1500 years after the death of Jesus. Many Books of the Bible themselves were written hundreds of years after his death. Then a king came along and made his version of the Bible hand picking what he thought should be in it. But you were raised protestant, so there's no way the Catholic version of beliefs could be as legitimate as yours

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The Protestant Reformation grew out of the Catholic Church and the goal was not to start another church, but to correct the ills of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther was a Catholic priest and monk. He was the first to have the Bible translated, not to "hand pick" anything, but to allow laypeople to be able to read the Bible. The Catholic Church mandated that the Bible be written only in Latin so that common people could not read it.

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I was raised Catholic, but think all religions are quite a bit off. Especially in Martin Luther's times, the church was probably corrupt. But it irks me to hear any protestant act holier than thou (especially southern). I absolutely hated seeing the damn free speech alley protesters with their kids out there knowing that they are teaching them that what you learn in college is bad, you don't need no book learnin, Jesus is the answer (and I realize all protestants aren't like these loons).

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The Catholic Church has a rich and colorful history of corruption. The Investiture Controversy, The Crusades, but it was the invention of purgatory and the selling of indulgences to avoid it that sparked the Reformation. Suggesting that even a measureable percentage of protestants can be exemplified by the free speech alley protestors is akin to suggesting that all Catholics blow up abortion clinics. There are fringe groups in every subculture and fringe groups don't define any of them.

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So although I don't prescribe to any religion, I will stand by Catholicism over protestant religions. Mostly because the Church is actually more accepting of change and understanding (for example it doesn't take the hard stand against evolution....at least not exactly)

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Catholicism holds on to many traditions and dogma that make no sense. No real denomination disavows evolution. Catholicism is behind in saying that may exist.

Read a little history on the Florida Parishes. All of them are majority Protestant. Mainly it has to do with Scots-Irish and Anglo-Saxon ancestry settling in the area after the American Revolution. The area was pretty much a No Man's Land of bandits, murderes, thieves, deserters, and yeoman farmers. French Settlement, or example, was created when the Spanish Government realized the area was being overrun by non-Catholics and resettled French-speaking Catholics in that area.

ETA: Sam Hyde's book "Pistols and Politics" is an excellent history on this area.