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Ubenedictus:
i think the thinking part is discouraged particularly for the six commandment

It's not just discouraged, it's called a sin. And when one considers Mathew 5:28, the implications for Catholics is that it's in fact a motal sin.

Gbola5:
Im so not looking forward to them meeting. I'd rather they meet in battle on opposite sides.

that will spell doom for the human race don't you think? Considering the white walkers.

I too have always asked this question during my years in catechism, especially when it has to do with fornicating. The general explanations I got was that, sin generally involves three stages. The thoughts, the resolve to carry out the thoughts, and the action, that sin only comes in after the second stage, regardless of whether the actions are eventually taken. I personally am not satisfied with that explanation though, knowing fully well that even after resolving to carry out such acts one can still change his mind.

moski5:
wat will happen b4 yu know winter has come, Snow is falling in d north, the WW r marching, war almost around Got world

Winter has Come

A deeper, metaphorical sense can also be found in the motto. According to George R.R. Martin, it more generally expresses the sentiment that there are always dark periods in each of our lives, and even if things are good now ("summer", we must always be ready for a dark period when events turn against us ("winter". In this sense, I think winter refers to the long night, the period of always winter, which the nights king carries along where ever he goes. If the nights king had invaded westrous during the summer, he would have brought winter along with him.It's this winter I think the Starks are referring to when they say winter is coming. So white walkers are not yet in westrous, so winter in that sense is not yet in westrous.

Gbola5:
Why do they have to ? To me they don't.

Really? You think it's just daenerys who will lead her army against the white walkers? Or you think they can both lead separate army against the white walkers. To me I just I believe the human race has to provide a more united front to stop the white walkers. It seems that both Jon, daenerys and Bran are going to be major players in the war for the dawn. it's difficult not seeing them meet. Plus in the books, In the House of the Undying, Daenerys comes across a vision of Rhaegar saying

He appears to look at Dany then, as if seeing her, and then he adds that "There must be one more," and "The dragon has three heads."
People have speculated here that the dragon with three heads here is daenerys, Jon and tyrion or Bran.

Electronzeez:
Has winter come ?

not yet, still on its way.

confistified:
: Snow to Meet Targaryen

The episode "Door" opened up the possibility of a meeting between Daenerys and Jon Snow. Now that Ser Jorah Mormont has been ordered by Khaleesi herself to cure himself of the deadly disease, could he be the guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Snow? Samwell Tarly is heading to Oldtown to become a master. Maybe he could be the link

Meanwhile showrunners DB Weiss and David Benioff 'sincerely' apologized to fans for killing yet another adorable character in Hodor

We already know Jon will meet daenerys at some point (they just have to meet) that's nothing new but I think it's more probable that they meet through the two red priestesses than in the process of jorah looking for a cure.

Gbola5:
The maesters may believe what
they wish. Ask a woods witch if
you would know the truth. The
grey death sleeps, only to wake
again. The child is not clean!

lol, even me and you can believe what we want. All I know is I saw a Stannis girl who couldn't pass the disease by touching. What kind of cure would the mother of dragons be talking of again.

Gbola5:
There is no cure. Unless D& D make one.

Stannis daughter was cured from it. The only thing is that jorah own seems to have spread farther than Stannis daughter own which might make it more difficult to cure.

Sarassin:
Well sir, I am really sorry you consider my views a "rant". I believe I have made my points, we agree to disagree, thanks for your time.

very well sir

stainlex:
I beg to differ bro. With the success of this show, I doubt if the budget is an issue. Anyways, got a credible source for this claim?

I think he's right. Do you know that GOT is the most pirated series? They might not be making so much to handle all those expenses. Have seen a video on youtube where the producer complained about how expensive those things are. If you noticed look of both the nights king and children of the forest changed from season 4

Sarassin:
It is not an assumption.


There is no misunderstanding, the intention of the passage is very clear. According to Matt 1:25 Joseph and Mary, husband and wife, in case you forgot, did what comes naturally after she had borne Jesus. You see two can play that game, I can drag up any number of cherry-picked verses in the bible to make a homonymous argument, it is rather pointless. The verses you referred to are just a red herring and have no bearing on the subject.

I want to believe you are much more intelligent that this and only trying to be tactfully disingenuous. I agree the passage was very clear, it is only your understanding that does not follow suit. The bolded is an example of your dis-ingenuity. Why have you tactfully stated that what should come naturally after marriage is what came after the birth of Jesus? Was Jesus born before Joseph and Mary were Man and wife? What prevented Joseph from consumating the marriage before the birth of Jesus? Maybe you already know that Mary and Joseph's union was quite different from what was obtainable naturally. The verses I referred to are red herring? Please stop making claims. Do well to prove them.

There is not a shred of evidence that they were cousins or other relatives. Indeed we are told that Mary and Elisheba mother of John the Baptist were related as cousins. Why do you think the NT would not specify if Judah, James et al were anything but full blood siblings?

Deductive reasoning bro. I have showed you reasons why the said brothers could not possibly be blood siblings.

Why is it so important to the Catholic Church that Mary remains a perpetual virgin? So much so that successive versions of the NT have written out Joseph and subtly removed all references to Jesus as being the son of Joseph? That is the real question.

The Church can teach a doctrine for millennieu, teaching it in itself is not a validation of the doctrine it is simply the Church’s own opinion. You say the Bible is only a part of the Catholic tradition, I say without the bible, Catholic tradition is rather meaningless and perspective is required. Catholic tradition is not the final arbiter of Jewish and Palestinian norms and customs.

What are you ranting about here now. It is no longer Mary's perpetual virginity that is the problem but who the father of Jesus is. The bible was quite clear on the issue and even you seemed to claim that it was only after the birth Jesus that Joseph had sex with Mary. Joseph was clearly a foster father. And nowhere have I claimed the Catholic church is the final arbiter of Jewish and Palestinian norms and customs, I will only take that as one of your many irrational responses to my posts.

You say Mary had taken a vow of virginity, I say that is an outlandish claim. More likely her betrothal to Joseph was at such a young age she was still a virgin at the time, as would have been expected.

This again in no way explains why Mary who was already betrothed would ask how she was to conceive Jesus. If according to you she is expected to naturally have sex with her husband, why would she ask such question?

This just goes to show the absurdity of that verse. You have just stated that James, Judah et al could have been cousins or other extended relations, in other words, even if according to you, they were not blood brothers, still according to the bible, even in the most uncharitable interpretation you can provide, they would still count as family members and as such Jesus would have handed Mary over to one of his family members in order to comply with the law, don’t you think?

This just shows you don't know much about jewish rites and customs.
[If], while a woman is still living in her father's house, her husband died and she has sons [she shall live where she chooses in] a house of theirs. [If] she has no [son, her father-in-law shall marry her to the son] of his choice… or if he wishes, he may give her in marriage to her father-in-law. If her husband and her father-in-law are both dead and she has no son [only then] has she the status of a woman without male support (almattu); she may go wherever she pleases (par. 33; in: Pritchard, Texts, 182).https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_20884.html
Nowhere mentions any distant relatives or cousins who the widow should be handed to.

Elohim1:
MARY NO CARRY BELLE WHEN SHE DAY HER PAPA HOUSE NA WHEN SHE CUN DAY LIVE WITH JOSEF NA IN SHE CUN CARRY BELLE HMM TOO BAD THE HOLY SPIRIT RAPED HER WITHOUT HER PERMISION SHA NO BE NEW THING OTHER GODS TO DO IT TO ZEUS DID IT KRISH DID IT ONLY THAT KRISH ASKED 4 PERMISION FIRST AND THE WOMAN ALLOWED HIM

Read your Bible well jor, the angel of the lord rightly informed Mary of God's plan for her and her famous response was "I am the hand maid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word."

anonimi:
IF he really said that, someone must have swept away his brain.

Just when I was already thinking you actually a robot lol. Or you sometimes leave this account on autopilot

Asimiju:
I thought am the only one that hate olly, as for Bran. Jon snow is waiting for him whenever he leads the white walkers across the wall.

djlaqua91:
Bran the destroyer. Killed Hodor, killed 3 eyed raven, killed children of the forest, sent Osha and rickon(still alive for now) to their deaths. And now with the mark on his hand will lead the white walkers to cross the wall and finish everyone in Westeros and Essos.
Thank you Bran, I hate you more than Olly.

Why would anyone hate Olly that much. His actions were born out of anger and quite understandably so, after the death of his family and friends at the hands of the wildlings. Plus he too young to understand all what was going on. RamseyBolton on the other hand has a totally stinking personality. I can't imagine living next to such a person and not killing him. I was predicting his death would come at the mouth of the dire wolves seeing how he loves to feed others to his hounds. "No no no, she's good meat.feed her to the hounds" can you imagine that? Seeing how the shows are killing off all the dire wolves it leaves my predictions hanging on a tiny thread.

Sarassin:
In the same vein you cannot demonstrate that Mary did not in fact give birth to other children apart from Jesus.

Sir, stop making assumptions about what I can and cannot do

But Matthew 1:25 indicates that Joseph had intimate relations with his wife Mary after the birth of Jesus, therefore the issue of Mary being a perpetual virgin living in lonely orgasmic splendour is spurious at best and misleading at worst. On a balance of probabilities it is more likely than not that Mary, as would have been expected of her, particularly amidst claims of a prior immaculate conception would have borne other children too.

Mathew 1:25 is also another passage that has been miss understood. I will give examples.
1 Timothy 4:13, Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
Does this mean Timothy should stop teaching after Paul comes?
1corinthians 15:25, For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet
Does this mean Christ reign will end afterwards?
Acts 25:21, But when Paul made his appeal to be held over for the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him held until I could send him to Caesar.
Does this mean that Paul would not be held in custody after he was "sent" to Caesar? Not according to the biblical record. He would be held in custody while in transit (see Acts 27:1) and after he arrived in Rome for a time (see Acts 29:16). So sir the use of the word until does not mean anything on the contrary happened afterwards. Your passage in Mathew does not indicate what you would like it to indicate.

The bible in quite a few cases does make distinctions for familial clarification, for instance Genesis 37:2 is a clear reference to Joseph and his half-brothers distinguished by the mention of the names of of Jacob's other wives. There is not the merest of hints that Joseph, father of Jesus had another wife or children prior to the birth of Jesus.

I am not saying for certain that the brothers are Jesus half brother, they could very well be his cousin or some other relatives but certainly not blood brother.

Also you seem to hang your gripe on the use of the word “brother” would you then say that the "Zebedee Brothers" were not full blood siblings because the term "brother" has had other usage? generalisations do not always apply in every instance.

Am not hung on any word. It's your likes who seem to be though. Rolling out these passages each time this issue comes up while forgetting it's other usage. As regards the sons of Zebedee, do you have any other reason to believe otherwise? Mathew 20:20 specifically talks of the mother of the Zebedee brothes to be one woman. No were in the Bible refers to the mother of Jesus brothers as Mary. The Catholic Church does have reasons to believe otherwise as regards the brothers of Jesus . It maintains that it has traditionally taught the perpetual virginity of Mary and even the early reformers also held this believe. The Bible which you are misquoting is only a part of it's tradition. You cannot claim the Bible says anything other than what the church has traditionally taught. Also In Luke 1:34, when Mary was told by the angel Gabriel that she was chosen to be the Mother of the Messiah, she asked the question "How shall this be since I know not man?" This question makes no sense for Mary who was already espoused. Even a lady who is yet to be espoused would be expected to very easily assume she would find a man who would impregnate her. Unless she had already taken a vow of virginity. Another thing of great significance is the handing over of Mary to John by Jesus in John 19:26 when by the Jewish law says the responsibility to care for Mary should fall to the eldest siblings alive. It is unthinkable that Jesus would take his Mother away from his family in disobedience to the law.

The implications of Mary being a perpetual virgin, meaning that Joseph died without a blood child is of huge significance largely ignored by Catholics. This is just a clear case of Catholics reverse-engineering biblical events to fit ill-conceived dogma.

Please, the perpetual virginity of Mary does not in any way imply that Joseph died without a blood child. And what is the significance sef if I may ask?

Santino1:
That scene (and the whole iron island plot) doesn't make sense to me.

First, you heard the whole folks chanting Yara! Tara!! and 5 seconds later they are in support of the uncle who not only admitted to killing Balon but also making unverifiable claims and half-arsed idea of seducing Daenerys. Seriously? . Like one commenter said, dude is like the Donald Trump of Westeros, next thing you know he'll promising to build a wall and get the white walkers to pay for it.

Second, we were made to believe most of the islanders escaped with Yara and Theon during Euron's coronation which begs the question: If she had such enormous support, how did Euron win the kinsgmoot in the first place.

I wish Benioff and Weiss didn't introduce the Dorne (equally as stupid) and the Iron Island plots in the show.

I don't think yara left with most of the ironborn, it makes no sense for a larger force to runaway from a smaller force. I don't even think the show showed us the strength of the ironborn army. Also the characters in dorne could be shaping up for bigger plot.

Sarassin:
No sir, no dodging here, Paul is very clear in Gal 1:18-19 "........I saw none of the other apostles, only James, the Lord's brother"
Paul's statement is clear, concise and not open to misinterpretation.

why have you concluded for certain that brother used in the Bible mean biological brother when in fact other passages have used the same words to describe other relationships. That is what you have failed to answer. The way I see it, quoting passages that makes reference to the brothers of Jesus is not enough to conclude that Mary had other kids in light of the bolded.

Sarassin:
This doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary is spurious and mere wishful thinking. On what planet does a first century Palestinian woman remain a perpetual virgin? It was impossible.

Sir, you did a nice dodging my question. Based on what have you arrived at the bolded. The bold is in fact what seems to be spurious and outlandish.

John 19:25 talks of Mary's sister who was also mary. Could Mary's parents have had two daughters and named both Mary? Also Genesis 13:8 and 14:12 talk about Abraham and Lot as brothers but we know they are actually uncle and nephew. Fact is that the word brethren was used to mean many different relationships even outside biological relationship even Mathew 23:8 ask us to called one another brother. How can one then conclude for fact that the brother mentioned in Mathew 13:55-56 and Mathew 1:24-25 actually meant biological brother. This, I think is the question that is yet to be answered by those who quickly dismiss the perpetual virginity of Mary.

ifeanyiernest05:
Its just giving the message "error running your script" and I ran every code on an online compiler and it was successful without errors
Maybe I don pass the deadline they said all tests must be submitted before 18th May, but then again they sent the link on the 18th by 11am didn't see it until the 19th.
Maybe I will try again in the next cycle

for starters Python is an interpreted language not a compiled language. So you're running your code on an interpreter not a compiler. And I think it's been mentioned before that Andela lab runs extra tests on the background that maybe your code is not passing. If you need my help though you'll need to post the question also cos I can't remember the question of that particular lab.

Barselonia:
am having same problem like yours, stuck there for over 2 days.... don't know the way out....

anybody can help us. oooo

we are stranded

miketayo damieskillz johnez1987 enigmatique

we need your help na.. u just doing like u don't see our message

if you can post the question along with the code you've written I'm will to help.

analice107:
Sir, I was full flesh very active Catholic. Am not a stranger to anything you want to say. I preached it too.
Sir, If you have eternity in view, and you read your Bible yet don't ask some salient questions questioning what you are preaching now, Well...Maybe your heaven wont be the one the Bible is talking about. just saying.

Have seen so many seperated Christians begin their arguments with the bolded but ask them if they were baptized in the Catholic Church and which catechism classes and for how long they attended these classes and you will find just how far away from catholism they were while been (in their own words) "Catholics".

Spyde:
somebody shld pls assist me with this oooo

pls post the question also

Ali01:
i really dont know

that is why am asking enigmatique who mentioned the rule. My advice is to send Andela a mail about your problem. Am sure they will reply you
Edit: also I think you're too anxious about this Andela thing. It might serve you bad when you get to the interview stage. Your plum test does not look bad to me. Just prepare for the home study test and am sure you will be fine.

enigmatique:
Ali01, here's your answer. So no, you don't need a new account. Note that it's against Andela's rules to apply 2+ times in the same cycle.

Bro , where exactly did Andela mention this rule?

Ali01:
Hello Andela i just discover the great opportunity last week, and i have applied, i have taken the survey and now am reading the HomeStudy curriculum.
but i have not seeing the test link.

please what should i do next?
thanks.

what to do next? Wait bro and continue reading the home study curriculum.
You can keep following this thread too. As soon people start writing theirs and you're yet to get yours then you can send Andela a mail to complain about the issue. It take time before they start sending out home study test link. This is to give you time to study as their will be deadline for you to take and complete the test.

Mattex001:
Send me a message!

I can't see your mail again!

I just sent you a pm

Mattex001:
Send me a message!

I can't see your mail again!

check this thread and not just your mentions, you quoted my email address. Please help me clean it off. I sent you a mail now to the email you wrote above.

Mattex001:
Foundation Packs huh?

yes, and please help edit my email you quoted. Don't want scammers to start spamming my email.

Mattex001:
Yes I was....
Drop ur mail I'll forward it to you ASAP

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