Divine birth, my foot! Mary wasn't a virgin.
"Daddy... uh... an -angel- made me pregnant." Sure, sweetie. If only we had fathers that naive today.
2007-01-05 06:58:18 · 21 answers · asked by Kilroy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, she had sex with her dad, that's why jesus was so "special".
2007-01-05 07:03:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Nope. That was not easy for either one of them to handle all the ridicule. Alot of people back then most likely reacted the way you are now. For Mary to be pregnant before she was married was incredibly disgraceful and humiliating. It is not something she would make up. Plus if Joseph had sex with her, don't you think he would be telling the other guys about it? The Bible does not lie and it clearly states that Mary was a virgin.
2007-01-05 07:26:50 · answer #2 · answered by cnm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're appropriate. Joseph did no longer have intercourse with Mary till after Jesus grew to become into born. The Bible says that Jesus had brothers and sisters; as a result, Joseph and Mary had to have had intercourse after Jesus grew to become into born. The brothers and sisters of Jesus weren't conceived via emaculant theory, as there would desire to no longer have been better than one Son of God interior the type of a guy, because of the fact there is in uncomplicated terms one Son of God. there's no Daughter of God. the place human beings get this theory that Mary remained a virgin for existence beats me. It ain't interior the Bible.
2016-10-06 12:03:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think ity was actually Zechariah, the High priest who married her girlfriend Elizabeth. Mary went to visit them for three months just before she announced her virgin conception miracle.
(Luke 1:39-56)
Note that Zechariah was a powerful and rich priest, like a Senator Kennedy or President Clinton in our times. If Joseph had made a fuss there would have been a major scandal. If Mary and Zechariah had been found guilty of adultery they would have got the death penalty. I think that they would have murdered Joseph and Mary before allowing that cat out of the bag.
2007-01-05 07:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by Barabas 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You Christians talking about something serious and taking it simple!!!!????
How come it is a miracle and such along time religion since Jesus PB UH birth till this moment and with huge followers, and you think it was not a miracle? and you question wither she is virgin or NOT???
you have to review your believes and the way you are embracing religion.
I advice you to re think about your existence and why and what religion you should follow.
Thanks dear friend.
2007-01-05 07:10:18 · answer #5 · answered by zajil 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I just dont get it .. why Jesus is called son of the God then when he has a father ? .. u are callin jesus a bastard when u say something like that bout his mother . u will be doomed u are a Fake believer . I thank Allah that I'm muslim and i would never dare to say anything bad about virgin marry peace be upon her !!!
2007-01-05 07:06:56 · answer #6 · answered by Faris 2007 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, the Bible didn't say that an angel got Mary pregnant, it said that the Holy Spirit did that. Shame on that Holy Spirit for getting a girl pregnant and not marrying her.
Of course it was Joseph or some other man!!!
2007-01-05 07:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Hello Phantome,
Would you please read the scripture for yourself so that you can stop spreading lies about Mary and Joseph. It is obvious that you are searching so keep seeking and you shall find. Good Luck
2007-01-05 07:07:55 · answer #8 · answered by Lil bit 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most Protestants claim that Mary bore children other than Jesus. To support their claim, these Protestants refer to the biblical passages which mention the "brethren of the Lord." As explained in the Catholic Answers tract Brethren of the Lord, neither the Gospel accounts nor the early Christians attest to the notion that Mary bore other children besides Jesus. The faithful knew, through the witness of Scripture and Tradition, that Jesus was Mary’s only child and that she remained a lifelong virgin.
An important historical document which supports the teaching of Mary’s perpetual virginity is the Protoevangelium of James, which was written probably less than sixty years after the conclusion of Mary’s earthly life (around A.D. 120), when memories of her life were still vivid in the minds of many.
According to the world-renowned patristics scholar, Johannes Quasten: "The principal aim of the whole writing [Protoevangelium of James] is to prove the perpetual and inviolate virginity of Mary before, in, and after the birth of Christ" (Patrology, 1:120–1).
To begin with, the Protoevangelium records that when Mary’s birth was prophesied, her mother, St. Anne, vowed that she would devote the child to the service of the Lord, as Samuel had been by his mother (1 Sam. 1:11). Mary would thus serve the Lord at the Temple, as women had for centuries (1 Sam. 2:22), and as Anna the prophetess did at the time of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:36–37). A life of continual, devoted service to the Lord at the Temple meant that Mary would not be able to live the ordinary life of a child-rearing mother. Rather, she was vowed to a life of perpetual virginity.
However, due to considerations of ceremonial cleanliness, it was eventually necessary for Mary, a consecrated "virgin of the Lord," to have a guardian or protector who would respect her vow of virginity. Thus, according to the Protoevangelium, Joseph, an elderly widower who already had children, was chosen to be her spouse. (This would also explain why Joseph was apparently dead by the time of Jesus’ adult ministry, since he does not appear during it in the gospels, and since Mary is entrusted to John, rather than to her husband Joseph, at the crucifixion).
According to the Protoevangelium, Joseph was required to regard Mary’s vow of virginity with the utmost respect. The gravity of his responsibility as the guardian of a virgin was indicated by the fact that, when she was discovered to be with child, he had to answer to the Temple authorities, who thought him guilty of defiling a virgin of the Lord. Mary was also accused of having forsaken the Lord by breaking her vow. Keeping this in mind, it is an incredible insult to the Blessed Virgin to say that she broke her vow by bearing children other than her Lord and God, who was conceived through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The perpetual virginity of Mary has always been reconciled with the biblical references to Christ’s brethren through a proper understanding of the meaning of the term "brethren." The understanding that the brethren of the Lord were Jesus’ stepbrothers (children of Joseph) rather than half-brothers (children of Mary) was the most common one until the time of Jerome (fourth century). It was Jerome who introduced the possibility that Christ’s brethren were actually his cousins, since in Jewish idiom cousins were also referred to as "brethren." The Catholic Church allows the faithful to hold either view, since both are compatible with the reality of Mary’s perpetual virginity.
Today most Protestants are unaware of these early beliefs regarding Mary’s virginity and the proper interpretation of "the brethren of the Lord." And yet, the Protestant Reformers themselves—Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli—honored the perpetual virginity of Mary and recognized it as the teaching of the Bible, as have other, more modern Protestants.
2007-01-05 07:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered why people STILL consider the Virgin Mary a virgin. I mean, she eventually had sex with Joseph, right?
2007-01-05 07:00:41 · answer #10 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No.
"Knowing that in the last days scoffers will come saying, where is the promise of Jesus' coming?"
2 Peter 3:3-4
2007-01-05 07:00:33 · answer #11 · answered by . 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋