why don't christians believe in the virgin mary?

Answer 1

Um, we do. She and her virginity are central to our theology. Protestants simply don't pray to her, because we don't pray to any saints--it's nothing personal.

Answer 2

The Bible clearly shows that Mary had other children besides Jesus; the Catholic Church’s teaching that she did not is what has created a controversy.
But what moved the Roman Church to adapt and adopt the “great mother” goddess and “divine virgin” cult? For one thing, the “pagan masses” coming into the church wanted it; they felt at home in a church that venerated a ‘great virgin mother.’ “In Egypt,” Professor Benz notes, “Mary was, at an early point, already worshipped under the title of the bearer of God (Theotokos).” So the “divine virgin” cult was adopted to accommodate the “pagan masses” that were streaming into the church.

Impetus to the veneration of Mary was provided at the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E. How so? Well, the Trinity doctrine was there made an official Catholic teaching, the Nicene Creed declaring Jesus to be God. This supposedly made Mary the “bearer of God,” or “mother of God.” And as Professor Benz said: “The Council of Ephesus (431) raised this designation to a dogmatic standard.” The next step was to make Mary a “perpetual virgin.” This occurred when the title “eternal Virgin” was given to Mary at the second Council of Constantinople in 553 C.E.

Answer 3

Some Christians really believe in the virgin birth but many don't. Non-catholics don't believe in praying to anyone but G-d and Jesus because there are parts of the NT that suggest praying to others is wrong.

Answer 4

Christians believe in the Virgin Mary, and the virgin birth of Jesus.
What we don't believe is the Catholic dogma that she remained a virgin her whole life, particularly when Jesus' half-brothers are named in the Gospels, and mention is made of His half-sisters.
When Luke speaks of the virgin birth, he says Mary brought forth her her firstborn son. The mere use of "firstborn" precludes that Jesus was her only son.

Mary remains as a woman most honored and blessed to Christians, but it was Jesus who died on the cross for man's sin, not Mary. Therefore, we do not worship her, neither do we consider her to be Co-Redemptrix.

Answer 5

We do believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, that Mary was a virgin when He was born.

But not the same blasphemous things the Roman Church believe about her.

Answer 6

Wow wow wow who said we dont believe in her? Of course we do she was the mother of Jesus the Bible says so. What we dont believe in is praying to her because quite frankly shes dead and does not worry about us. Only God/Holy trinity deserve being prayed to. Mary was just a really good woman and nothing more.

Answer 7

How come we don't believe in the Virgin Mary?? We do. She carried Jesus. We can't ignore her. We just don't put her on a pedastool like other religions. Jesus is the main point.

Answer 8

The virgin Mary is not God

Christ was and is.

Answer 9

Catholic belief is that all of us, Mary included, need a Redeemer because of our fallen nature and that no one can attain Heaven without His Blood. We are saved from our fallen nature by His grace alone through faith that worketh in charity. Mary, though, because God knew how she would use the free will He gave to her, was saved, by His grace, from having a fallen nature at the moment of her conception. She was redeemed from her mother's womb, an act planned from Genesis 3 so that she could act as the New Eve and so that Christ could be born of vessel even more pure than the Ark of the Covenant. Christ would not have been born from that which is impure! God knew of Mary's will to serve even before she was conceived. He knew she would say yes to Him, and He saved her at her first moment.

The word "brother" or "brethren" is often used in Scripture for relationships other than that of those born of the same parents.

Matthew 1:25 reads, "And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son..." But, once again, language clouds the issue. "Until" is used to mean "up to that point, and with no intimations that things changed after that point." Example, 2 Samuel 6:23 reads, "Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death." Would Protestants say she had children after the day of her death because the use of the word "unto" proves it?

Gospel According to Saint Luke
Chapter 1

46 And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 48 Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. 49 Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; and holy is his name. 50 And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him.

"Shall call me blessed"... These words are a prediction of that honour which the church in all ages should pay to the Blessed Virgin. Let Protestants examine whether they are any way concerned in this prophecy.

Well, P I T, you go ahead and pick and choose from your Bible.
Don't forget Luther removed 7 books.............knowledge that some do not have because they have not read the words of the Bible.
Also, since you are Bible-only (sola scripta), it's amazing how little you know of different interpratations based on translating words from Hebrew, Greek and Araimic.


The idea that all revealed truth is to be found in "66 books" is not only not in Scripture, it is contradicted by Scripture (1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:15, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 1 Timothy 3:15, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Peter 3:16). It is a concept unheard of in the Old Testament, where the authority of those who sat on the Chair of Moses (Matthew 23:2-3) existed. In addition to this, for 400 years, there was no defined canon of "Sacred Scripture" aside from the Old Testament; there was no "New Testament"; there was only Tradition and non-canonical books and letters.

And given the level of bickering back and forth about what Scripture means, do you believe that God expects each of us to be a scholar of Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Chaldean to understand His word and the message of salvation? No! This is why He, in His wisdom, started a Church with teaching authority through Peter, the earthly father of the New Covenant and whose successors sit on the Chair of Peter, just as Abraham was the earthly father of the Old Covenant and his successors sat on the Chair of Moses.

Source(s):
Where the Bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be;
even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church'' Ignatius of Antioch, 1st c. A.D

Answer 10

We believe in the virgin birth. we believe she was a special woman one hand picked by God but like all of us she also needed a Savior and like all of us we are all also called and chosen by God for his purpose and plans.