"But if ... evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones..." (Deuteronomy 22:20,21)
2007-02-25 01:57:40 · 20 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've said that all along. Which would be better, telling a lie and staying alive, or telling the truth and being stoned to death for simply not being a virgin?
2007-02-25 02:00:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
Ah, I found this out to when I asked the other night:
The Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic dogma that asserts that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved by God from the stain of original sin at the time of her own conception.
THEN according to Christian and Islamic tradition, she miraculously remained virginal through the conception and birth of Jesus, as foretold by the angel Gabriel.
But Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?"
35 And the angel said to her in reply, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. 36 And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; 37 for nothing will be impossible for God."
38 Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.
And boom! double whammy miracle if you will.
2007-02-25 02:14:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mary was a very respected young woman that God chose to give birth to the Son of God. The reason why He chose her, was because she was a virgin. Had she had Him by her husband, then her husband's sin nature would have been passed along to Jesus. Jesus is incapable of sin, therefore He needed an honorable young virgin to carry His Son. If you'd have looked in the New Testament rather than the Old, then you would see that even her husband thought that she had had an affair at first! But God gave him the power to overcome his feelings and, and he came to trust Mary.
2007-02-25 02:17:30 · answer #3 · answered by ilovejoshgroban! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The immaculate conception IS NOT the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
The immaculate conception is the natural conception of Mary inside her own mother's womb, without the stain of original sin.
Two different events. Two entirely different definitions. Neither one "invented" by Mary.
2007-02-25 03:09:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, Mary never claimed to have been immaculately conceived.
Oh, are you confusing the Immaculate Conception with the Virgin Birth?
2007-02-25 02:06:47 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pathogenesis takes position automatically in different species, and scientists have said that it really is conceivable with people. Do a Google search for on "Virgin start" for references. Joseph knew that he wasn't the daddy of Mary's baby, it really is why the Bible says that he resolved to end the engagement quietly. That seems after decision a million. Mary wasn't married to Joseph on the time that she conceived Jesus. They were engaged. No adultery in touch. decision 3 is that Jesus became conceived by the Holy Spirit in simple terms because the Bible says He became. He became genuine God because He became conceived by the Spirit and genuine guy because He took on a body in His mom's womb. His human body suffered, bled, and finally died. His God nature expenses for the miracles that He worked and His resurrection from the useless. interior the absence of any info on the opposite, it really is the finest rationalization and the only which I settle for. because you reject the Bible, you're not to any extent further going to trust that, and that is your decision. And in simple terms FYI: the stainless idea has no longer some thing to do with Jesus. It refers back to the doctrine which states that Mary became preserved from sin from the prompt of her idea. Edit: no one said that it occured certainly interior the human species. And who says that it had to be a "synthetic situation?" in case you settle for the actual shown truth that it /can/ ensue, then it really is not any longer a lot of a stretch to say that God ought to create life interior the womb of Mary without sexual sex.
2016-12-04 22:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scary thing is that they are STILL like that in many parts of the Middle East!
The same people who wrote that horrible crap and really practiced it as law thousands of years ago, STILL practice and preach this kind of brutality and sexism....
Things haven't changed much over there, THANK goodness for the age of enlightenment in Western Europe and the breaking away from ridiculous superstition and myth in order to seek REAL TRUTH.
2007-02-25 02:12:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what some people miss is this...
in those days, if the woman was accused of fornication, she was examined. If it was found that she had sex and lied, she was stoned. If she was still a virgin, she was exonerated.
Mary was physically still a virgin. Nowhere in the Bible does it say she lied to hide this fact. It is possible she knew she was faithful.
2007-02-25 02:07:26 · answer #8 · answered by n9wff 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's the Immaculate Conception
get it straight
2007-02-25 02:05:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you're confused about a few things.
First, the Immaculate Conception does not refer to the conception of Jesus in Mary's womb.
It refers to the conception of Mary in her mother's womb.
Second, Old Testament capital punishment did not apply to the Jews of Mary's time.
At that time, Israel was occupied by the Romans, who forbade the Jews from putting anyone to death.
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2007-02-25 02:03:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋