anyone believe in the virgin mary?
2006-10-18 15:12:48 · 12 answers · asked by havingfun 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you kidding me? If you read that same story in the National Enquirer about some woman getting knocked up by God and claiming to be a virgin, although she's married, you'd say it was a bunch of bullshit. Why should I believe it because it was written two thousand years ago with no proof at all.
2006-10-18 15:23:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
From Genesis to Revelation, from Bethlehem to Cana to Calvary, the most powerful procession of images in Scripture is the dazzling vision of the Woman and her Seed, the Virgin and her Son, the Queen-Mother and the King, the Daughter of Zion and the messianic Son of Man, the New Adam and the New Eve.
This striking sequence of scriptural icons locked itself into the minds and hearts of the Christian faithful, starting with the Apostolic Community of the first century, the first Fathers and the earliest Councils, and resulted in a vast treasury of doctrinal and devotional masterpieces.
The union of Mother and Son in the Son's mission of salvation and in the war against the Serpent is a persistent theme of Scripture mirrored in Christian doctrine and devotion through the centuries.
This union of the New Adam and the New Eve has been portrayed from a wide variety of perspectives, the most recent being the union of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
To see the Son without the Virgin Mother, the Seed without the Woman, the King without the Queen-Mother, the New Adam without the New Eve is to do violence both to Scripture and to all of Christian history.
For the Christian who enters the mind of the New Testament Church, the idea of "Jesus alone" without Mary is as unthinkable as the idea of the New Testament alone without the Old or the divinity of Jesus without the Humanity.
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2006-10-18 22:22:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe in Mary Mother the Virgin, she is a symbol of strength, compassion and love who helped to raise Jesus to be who he was.
2006-10-18 22:17:25 · answer #3 · answered by Unity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rofl. Mary wasn't a virgin. She was a woman that slept around and got pregnant then didn't want to face punishment for it so made up a convincing lie.
2006-10-18 22:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do I believe "in" her? I believe that she was a virgin, and she had Jesus yes.
2006-10-18 22:15:16 · answer #5 · answered by trainer53 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe she existed and that she gave birth to Jesus.
2006-10-18 23:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by chr1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only Catholics
2006-10-18 22:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hi, if you are Christian or Muslim you have to.
2006-10-18 22:17:01 · answer #8 · answered by thomas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2006-10-18 22:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
2006-10-18 22:15:25 · answer #10 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋