How long did Mary stay a virgin?

Question

We all know she was a virgin giving birth. But did she have sex in the manger after Jesus was born.

Answer 1

It was a 5-second rule.
5-seconds after birth she and Joseph GOT IT ON!

Answer 2

I know you're just being deliberately dense when you talk about having sex in the manger, but there are actually arguments on both sides as to whether Mary had sex with her husband, Joseph, after Jesus was born. Some believe Jesus had a brother, which would, of course, mean that she did. Others believe she stayed a virgin her whole life.
As this is all pretty much mythology, I don't think there's any right answer: it's the just this particular fiction hasn't been agreed upon yet.

Answer 3

not very long. Mary was a prostitute and she was not a virgin when jesus was born. That is just what you are told to believe. It is a shame that so much religion is based on faith, other wise the impossible would not be logical. If mary was still a virgin, then moses did not part the red sea, and there never was an ark, ans soddom and gomorrah was just a campfire. People who believe have to believe with blind faith, otherwise logic and common sense would tell you many things in the bible are fabricated, made up stories. Mary got pregnant without having sex before the time of A.I. Yeah right, people who believe that are gullable and can easily be taken advantage of by the church and in life.

Answer 4

I doubt if she had it in the manger. Actually, I doubt if she was a virgin to begin with. In the society of that time, women got married around 14 or 15 and even if Joseph was older which he probably was - I'm sure he was more than a little horny at having a young wife! And let's not forget - the Bible mentions Jesus had brothers - where did they come from - the stork?

Answer 5

We don't know exactly how long it was, but common sense(and that is all we can use) would say that it was a reasonable time after the birth of Christ. We do know that Jesus had brothers and sisters. I seriously doubt that it happened in the manger. She and Joseph had to be in such a state of Joy after the birth of Christ that procreation was not an immediate consideration.

Answer 6

She was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Jesus.

Even the protestant reformers affirmed their belief that Mary, while remaining every-virgin, was truly the Mother of God. Here are only a few examples:

Martin Luther (1483-1546), On the Divine Motherhood of Mary, wrote:

In this work whereby she was made the Mother of God, so many and such great good things were given her that no one can grasp them. ... Not only was Mary the mother of him who is born [in Bethlehem], but of him who, before the world, was eternally born of the Father, from a Mother in time and at the same time man and God. (Weimer's The Works of Luther, English translation by Pelikan, Concordia, St. Louis, v. 7, p. 572.)

Luther wrote on the Virginity of Mary:

It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a virgin. ... Christ, we believe, came forth from a womb left perfectly intact. (Weimer's The Works of Luther, English translation by Pelikan, Concordia, St. Louis, v. 11, pp. 319-320; v. 6. p. 510.)

The French reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) also held that Mary was the Mother of God.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor. ... Elizabeth called Mary Mother of the Lord, because the unity of the person in the two natures of Christ was such that she could have said that the mortal man engendered in the womb of Mary as at the same time the eternal God. (Calvini Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Braunschweig-Berlin, 1863-1900, v. 45, p. 348, 35.)

Calvin also up held the perpetual virginity of Mary, as did the Swiss reformer, Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), who wrote:

I firmly believe that Mary, according to the words of the gospel as a pure Virgin brought forth for us the Son of God and in childbirth and after childbirth forever remained a pure, intact Virgin. (Zwingli Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Berlin, 1905, v. 1, p. 424.)

Answer 7

You really believe in the Devine Conception stuff? Mary wasn't a virgin as Jesus supposedly had brothers and sisters...How could Mary ever be a Virgin. PEACE!

Answer 8

TC, because Joseph was a moral and just man, he followed the Law which would have meant he could not have sexual relations with his wife while she was unclean. When they presented Jesus in the temple, that would have been after the time of her purification. So anytime after that, I'm sure that Joseph and Mary had sex. After all, Jesus had brothers and sisters.

Answer 9

Could you as a man see yourself having sexual relations with the mother of the Son of God.God incarnate? Think about it! Joseph had been married before and He had other children. Jesus step brothers and sisters.Definitely yes Mary remained a Virgin.

Answer 10

Mary was definitely a virgin giving birth to Christ, but if you read your King James Version Bible, she did have more children in the future, as she and Joseph had other sons.

Answer 11

after Jesus was born, Mary and his stepfather Joseph did have other children. but not right away and they did not have it in the manager. Jesus was born threw Holy Spirit from Jehovah God, not by Joseph. Jesus is not God, he is the son of God. he even asked the 12 disciples who they think he was and they said he was the son of the Most High Father Jehovah, and Jehovah is not another name for Jesus