Please answer this question seriously
2007-05-01 15:38:53 · 22 answers · asked by NOTW<>< 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely. She was mortal and very much human. I have no doubts that she felt pain. Jesus himself felt the pain that was inflicted upon him.
2007-05-01 15:41:55 · answer #1 · answered by Beavis 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Depending on what denomination you follow, the short answer is - No, she did not feel pain during the birth of Christ.
Reason? God needed a spotless vessel to birth Christ/God and created Mary as humans were before the fall - without original sin. Since she was human and living in a fallen world, so she could feel pain if she fell down and such, but since childbirthing pain is a curse of a fallen nature particular to women - aka "daughters of Eve", she would not have experienced childbirthing pain since her conception of Christ was immaculate, born without original sin and she never sinned in her life (hence, she is the "new Eve").
Believing or nor believing this, however, is not necessary for faith. It is still highly debated.
2007-05-01 16:04:00 · answer #2 · answered by AutumnLilly 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm...are you trying to get at the point that Mary was supposedly born without original sin...the sin of Eve eating the apple which Biblically is the source of women's pain in childbirth???
I think you have a nice thing to think about. Personally, I don't delve into the philosophical, but if you want to...more power to you!!
2007-05-01 15:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely. She was just as human as you and I, despite many beliefs that elevate her almost to the position of God. The Bible gives no indication of that, only to say that she was "blessed" and "favored by God" because she was chosen to mother Jesus. However, she was very human, with human thoughts, feelings, and fears. Not even Jesus was spared pain and suffering, and He was God! Plus, Jesus was raised like an average human being, with the exception that He never sinned. Mary probably did feel the normal pains of childbirth.
2007-05-01 15:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by musicalchik 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure that she did. Giving birth to a baby is a painful process and the Scriptures don't give any indication that Mary was granted a special deliverance from the curse God placed on women in Genesis 3.
2007-05-01 15:42:12 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The dogma [of Mary's perpetual virginity] in basic terms asserts the factof Mary's actual virginity without determining extra heavily the way it really is to be physiologically defined. regularly the Fathers and the Schoolmen [i.e., the Scholastics, alongside with St. Thomas Aquinas] conceived it as non-harm to the hymen, and thus taught that Mary gave delivery in astounding vogue without beginning of the womb and harm to the hymen, and subsequently also without pains (cf. ST III:28:2). although, in accordance to renowned organic medical expertise, the really actual area of virginity is composed contained in the non-fulfillment of the sex act ... and contained in the non-contact of the female egg with the help of the male seed.... as a effect, harm to the hymen in delivery does no longer damage virginity, at the same time as, on the different hand, its rupture seems to belong to finish organic motherhood. It follows from this that from the theory of virginity on my own the astounding personality of the attitude of delivery can't be inferred, if it can't be and ought to no longer be derived from different info of [divine] revelation. Holy writ attests Mary's energetic position contained in the act of delivery (Matt. a million:25, Luke 2:7: "She presented forth") which does no longer seem to teach a astounding procedure. although the Fathers, with few exceptions, vouch for the astounding personality of the delivery. although, the question is not any matter if in doing so as that they attest a reality of [divine] revelation or no matter if or not they wrongly interpret a reality of revelation, it really is, Mary's virginity, from an inadequate organic medical perspective. it type of feels hardly ever achievable to illustrate that the honor of the Son of God or the honor of the mum of God demands a astounding delivery.
2016-11-24 19:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably. If she didn't have pain, I don't think it would have been for miraculous reasons.
I met a polynesian lady in hospital, and she said she had had two children in natural childbirth with NO pain. Amazing...
2007-05-01 15:45:45 · answer #7 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOTW:
Catholic mythology says that the Blessed Mother gave birth to her Holy Infant, "like light passing through glass."
I believe that God spared her the pains of labor.
Jin Ju
2007-05-01 15:45:52 · answer #8 · answered by JinJu 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Naturally.
2007-05-01 15:41:47 · answer #9 · answered by Baz 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-05-01 15:41:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋