19 Dec 04
Originally posted by silver fernOh come now. Immaculate conception has nothing to do with God having sex with someone.
thou shalt not commit adultery, thats right isn't it? so why was it ok for god to have it off with josephs wife? seems like a contridiction or double standards,
There was a well known case in britain in the 80's. A virgin woman gave birth.
What seems to have happened is that she and her husband had never quite known what positions are most commonly used to have sex. Basically they only ever had anal sex.
Seemingly some semen managed to make its way to the uterus.
See. No God involved.
Anyway, I always presumed that whenever Mary said: "Oh, it's not Joseph's, it's God's." the person who she was telling it to would give her a knowing wink and smile.
Adultery was frowned upon in those days.
19 Dec 04
Originally posted by AThousandYoungAdultery has nothing to do with being an adult.
She wasn't an adult at the time...they married young in those days!
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Adultery A*dul"ter*y, n.; pl. Adulteries. L. adulterium.
See Advoutry.
1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage
bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than
his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married
woman with another than her husband.
19 Dec 04
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Originally posted by SbecspeledrXShhhh... He's an anarchist (crappy song reference (the reference is crappy not the song (worst. rhyme. ever!)))
Antichrist...If you're going to go round trying to discredit christians you probably need a more subtle online name. I mean now we know you're the Antichrist we now you have a vested interest in dicrediting them!
19 Dec 04
Originally posted by shavixmirJust a point of doctrinal clarification:
Oh come now. Immaculate conception has nothing to do with God having sex with someone.
According to the Church Universal, Mary, not Jesus, was
'Immaculately Conceived.' What this means is, unlike
everyone else in the world, Mary was born without original
sin and, tradition has it, that she never sinned in her lifetime.
The reason that this is of importance is, within the Jewish
faith, the sins of the your forefathers are passed 'on through the
third and the fourth generations.'
As such, if Mary were not Immaculately Conceived, she would
pass on the sins of her father (named 'Joachim' by tradition)
onto Jesus, a theologically unacceptable situation (for Jesus,
too, was believed to be without sin by tradition).
So: The Immaculate Conception is about Mary's conception,
which took place by the natural method. Jesus' conception is
the Miraculous Conception, which took place by extraordinary
means (i.e., the Holy Spirit).
Ivanhoe might want to elaborate on this, as he might have
more information, being the resident Roman Catholic.
Nemesio
19 Dec 04
Originally posted by XanthosNZ🙂
Shhhh... He's an anarchist (crappy song reference (the reference is crappy not the song (worst. rhyme. ever!)))
One programmer to another... sees the nested logic and just sort of smiles. Good use of an idiom.
I think you introduced a bug there with the "Not" though.
SVW has a mindknot trying to "not" a song.
Do you have the code for Worst.Rhyme.Ever() funciton? I would love to see it.