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Is the Pope Infallible & Mary Sinless?

December 8, 2024 BibleAuthenticity Comments 13 comments

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The Christian Post published an article on December 8, 2024 about the First Vatican Council, which began December 8, 1869. This Roman Catholic Church Council decided that the pope, the leader of the Church cannot make a mistake about certain matters of faith, and that Jesus’ mother, Mary, never sinned. Are these claims actually Biblical? Is the pope infallible and Mary sinless? We’ll see.

Part of this article appears below:

This week in Christian history: . . . First Vatican Council begins read more

WAS JESUS’ CONCEPTION A MORAL EVENT?

March 7, 2023 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

Is the Bible reliable? — Was the conception of Jesus a moral event?

The two biblical accounts that deal with Jesus’ conception (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35), both present it as moral in every sense of the word. There have been a few who, without any Biblical evidence, have claimed otherwise.

“God sent the angel Gabriel . . . to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph . . . The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, ‘Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.’ Mary was greatly troubled at this and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and be called the Son of the Most High . . . ‘ ‘How will this be,’ Mary asked the angel, ‘since I am a virgin? The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God'” (Luke 1:26-35 NIV). read more

Was Mary A Teenager When Jesus Was Conceived?

March 6, 2023 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

Was Mary a teenager when Jesus was conceived? In the two Biblical accounts that deal with Jesus’ miraculous conception, Mary’s age is never mentioned (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35). No clue is given as to her approximate age at that time. While some pastors, Bible teachers, and even “scholars”, claim that Mary was a teenager when Jesus was conceived, the Bible does not give Mary’s age.

“When the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law”—Galatians 4:4 NIV. Contrary to the claims that she was only teenager, the Bible says she was “a woman”. read more