Did a "gynocologist" test Mary to see if she was really a "Virgin" or did everyone just take her word for it?
2006-07-16 13:00:31 · 21 answers · asked by jamiety11 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mary's "virgin birth" does not indicate she's a virgin. It just means that she hadn't had sex for that particular conception. Jesus did have siblings, who came about the old fashioned way.
2006-07-16 13:04:39 · answer #1 · answered by LoonieGirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I believe that Jesus was a virgin birth. Mary and Joseph were not married when the "virgin conception" took place. If she had been having sex outside of marriage, and the community had found out (or Joseph didn't believe her, for that matter) she could have been stoned to death. Further, she was very pregnant (and it was much more dangerous then) and she was sitting sideways on a donkey over rough roads while Joseph had to walk all the way. Do you honestly think they wanted to have sex after a day like that?
2006-07-16 20:06:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they had sex. During Biblical times, premarital sex would have been a terrible sin, so what better way to conceal it when the inevitable happened than by claiming a virgin birth? They had no gynocologists to test for virginity, for another to probe around in that area would be an abomination. She was taken at her word, at least by enough people to spread the story of a virgin birth. Surely there was gossip behind her back from those who speculated on what was really going on.
2006-07-16 20:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe that Mary & St. Joseph never consumated their marriage.
Why? Because St. Joseph, being a God-Fearing Jew, would not dare to go enter where God Had Entered.
2006-07-16 22:07:07 · answer #4 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you telling us that you don't think a man and a woman can travel together without having sex?
Maybe Joseph was a better man than you are?
2006-07-16 20:04:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee, an adult Joseph travelling alone with a virgin 18 year old. You do the math. lol
2006-07-16 20:03:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to the available literature on the subject, mary was already preggers on that trip. nine months pregnant at that, maybe she was a bit early, after all she rode on a freekin donkey most o the trip. so i gotta say prolly not. i gotta think she would have slapped old joe silly if he tried climbin on top o her during the famous road trip.
2006-07-16 20:14:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have been foolish of her to claim she had become pregnant without having sex--nigh even to blasphemy. She was risking her life by claiming this. In Jewish culture, Joseph would have had the right to stone her to death. So she took a large risk, it's not likely she was lying. ;)
2006-07-16 20:02:55 · answer #8 · answered by RandyGE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not...
The term "virgin" in the bible was also mistranslated. In the original texts she is a "young woman." The virgin birth is a myth.
2006-07-16 20:06:26 · answer #9 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't believe it. The story is based on a concept, not actuality. It represents an allegory. The bible is a book of literature and should be treated as such.
2006-07-16 20:06:37 · answer #10 · answered by sacredmud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋