“VATICAN CITY, June 23 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Tuesday reaffirmed a long-standing rule that only an ordained priest or ​deacon can give a sermon at a Catholic mass, ‌rejecting a request from German bishops to broaden the practice and allow sermons by women or other laypeople.”

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        Which Bible? Which translation, which council? Because most of the stuff in “the Bible” changes with every translation. An example would be the relatively recent changes to condemn homosexuality when originally they were condemning the Roman practice of pederasty.

        Anyway, first century Jewish girls were usually betrothed during or immediately after puberty and as she was already promised to Joseph according to one gospel she would have been between 12 and 16. It’s possible she was an outlier but much more likely if she did exist she was pregnant around 14.

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          read the original greek and hebrew at this point if you hate translations this much

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                You can’t prove a negative. You’re the one that claims god exists, where’s your empirical evidence? Where’s your proof? Repeatable, testable proof? As it is there’s no evidence whatsoever of any deity of any kind so there’s no reason to believe they’d exist. You say they do, that’s your claim, now prove it. Maybe learn some rhetoric and logic first so you can actually have a legitimate good faith discussion.

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                  Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became.

                  how did the Apostle John and the author of Genesis know thay light can be created from matter more than a thousand years before it was proven via colliders?

                  John 1:4 Life was in Him, and Life was the light of men.

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                    how did the Apostle John and the author of Genesis know thay light can be created from matter more than a thousand years before it was proven via colliders?

                    They didn’t? Nothing in that passage implies anything scientific or anything even about the nature of light and the relationship between matter and energy.