“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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    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.

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      the Bible is in parables

      and yes, it does? Light can create, and God is the light of all men, God is the creator of all men, and God also illuminates our lives in a special way

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        The new testament isn’t in parables at all. Some of the characters in the new testament use parables, but that’s not the same. And if the bible is parables, nothing in it is meant to be taken in any way literally which clearly isn’t the case. You’re taking contradictory positions. And nothing about the passage implies anything about light or physics whatsoever.

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          MOST of it is in parables, the parts about Jesus and his life are personal testimonies of the disciples