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Post by ♫MysteriousMan♫ on Feb 10, 2004 17:54:47 GMT -5
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Post by scott on Feb 10, 2004 18:04:15 GMT -5
Yea,the verse in the Bible never says three men,just that the gifts were brought.Who knows.
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Post by unojuno on Feb 10, 2004 18:08:45 GMT -5
I'm sure professors in Religion have been teaching that as a fact-oid for centuries. Then some guy probably wrote his doctorate book on it, and one of his students read it. That one student now probably works for Yahoo and thought they'd be all cool and origional and write that to seem cool and have other people think they are smarter than everyone else because they read Yahoo.
I need to stop these run-on sentences...
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Post by BELETH the Mighty on Feb 10, 2004 19:30:33 GMT -5
But, but...how could anyone who's wise be female? I mean, women are just man's servant, right? "...thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." So if they were women they'd be home serving their husband instead of wandering around giving gifts, right? And to think that women could possess anything of wealth, like gold. Pah, that's silly talk, right?
I'm sorry to be the first to say this, but The Bible is a book plagued with sexism. Just look at it, and it's there. Chances are, they were men, because there's no way the penholders would put women in a position that high. Really, I do apologize if I've offended anyone, but this is just an opinion from an unbiased onlooker.
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Post by ♫MysteriousMan♫ on Feb 12, 2004 7:00:31 GMT -5
technically what they are saying is that the penholders did say they were men, but the fact was they were women. but thats just a minor detail. yes, Beezlebub, you hit the nail on the head and once again I have laughed my ass off while reading your post. good job.  |
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Post by foehammer on Feb 13, 2004 1:01:07 GMT -5
Heh heh, those headlines they quoted were pretty funny. It has also recently come to my attention that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute. Maybe. Who the hell knows for sure? It's not like there's new evidence coming out, our perception of it has just been changed. I repeat, it has been changed. The Good Book says what the Church says it says. So do prayers. I personally think we shouldn't argue over details like that, if antiquity had wanted us to remembe all those details they would have been set down sooner, by people who were there, and preserved.
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Post by ♫MysteriousMan♫ on Feb 13, 2004 12:48:53 GMT -5
religions are so disorganized, no matter how much people try to organize them. thousands of years screw up records of events, and suddenly everyone's playing semantics. I hate people that take everything that is written literally.
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Post by JadeGriffon on Feb 15, 2004 1:24:30 GMT -5
My question is does is really matter? They may have been women, but what difference does it make? Also, one guy said "While it seems very unlikely that these Persian court officials were female, the possibility that one or more of the Magi were female cannot be excluded completely." That makes sense. Still makes no difference, I think.
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Post by bob on Feb 15, 2004 11:33:09 GMT -5
yeah, it just lame technicality crap that people will try to use to discredit the bible, but i dont care what who or how many magi were or werent there, as it has no bearing on my beliefs
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Post by xenocide7375 on Feb 19, 2004 23:20:51 GMT -5
My question is does is really matter? They may have been women, but what difference does it make? Also, one guy said "While it seems very unlikely that these Persian court officials were female, the possibility that one or more of the Magi were female cannot be excluded completely." That makes sense. Still makes no difference, I think. I agree, women or men, they are all equel in gods eyes. The thing that matters were the three gift that were given to jesus by three wise individuals. |
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