[Philosophical pluralism] is the ideology that refuses to allow any single religion or worldview to claim an exclusive hold on the truth. It denies that there are any absolutes. It insists that all religions and worldviews must be seen as equally valid…To suggest otherwise is to be arrogant and intolerant. No religion can claim to be superior to any other. You may practice your faith as long as you realize it is only one of many true faiths. If what you believe is true at all, it is only relatively true… [But] at the same time that philosophical pluralism denies other religions the right to lay claim to the truth, it presents its own worldview as the absolute truth… In the end philosophical pluralism’s dismissal of dogma turns out to be just another dogma.
Philip Graham Ryken

Perpetual Virginity

Perpetual Virginity

PERPETUAL VIRGINITY

BASIC R.C. BELIEF After the fifth century, many excess of devotion to Mary began to spring up. One was belief in her perpetual virginity (that Jesus was her only child). One of the reasons for this was to encourage men and women to seek celibate state as a higher level of spirituality. It came at a time when a decadent society regarded maternity as inferior to virginity.

The scripture used for this is Ezekiel 44:2.

POST VATICAN II In the Vatican II document OPTATIUM TOTIUS it says, “Virginal consecration to Christ is of greater excellence than Christian marriage” (10/28/65).

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