2007-10-11 07:12:57 · 17 answers · asked by rona 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thanks for nice answers , actually i know the answer, you say she married 12 and give birth to jesus when 14.
from this longtime, this was normal to marry and have children in this age as girl in hot regions become mature early may be at 8 years old while in cold regions may be late up to 21 years old.
When i asked this question , my aim is to know why you object marriage of the prophet Mohammed with a child 9 years old? we now consider this age is normal in their era.
You also say , the man who spouse the virgin marry was above 70 or 80 years old.
2007-10-11 07:40:33 · update #1
15, but God is not a pedophile
or the bible would have said so.
2007-10-11 07:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Christians know very well that Mary was only a Virgin UNTIL the birth of Jesus. The immaculate conception is just that - conception - when Mary was over-shadowed by the Holy Spirit and Jesus was CONCEIVED (BUT NOT YET BORN OF COURSE) (Matthew 2:20) Mary was a married woman, so after Jesus Christ's birth, she then had relations with her husband (otherwise she would have been stoned under the old Jewish LAW) and she gave birth to several children - both male and female and they are named in the Bible as Joses, James, Simon and Judas and the sisters aren't named (Matthew 13:55 & 56) It's only Catholics who have perpetrated the lie that Mary was a Virgin all her life. She wasn't.
2016-04-08 03:24:22 · answer #2 · answered by Marie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was very young, about 14 or 15, this seems way too young in this day an age and would be considered pedaphilia in today's world, but in the ancient middle east, the average life span was only around 35 to 40 for the most part with a few exceptions here and there so people got married and such at a very early age.
2007-10-11 07:19:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Given the customs of the time, girls were married off at a very young age, generally around 12 or 13. That would make Mary around 13, maybe 14 when she gave birth to Jesus.
We have no concrete way of determining this.
2007-10-11 07:16:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
During that time in history, it was common for girls to be married off at about age 12 or 13 and have babies throughout their teens. So I'd think that Mary was an early teen mother, without the stigma that is attached to it today.
2007-10-11 07:26:40 · answer #5 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably about 13. Traditionally, girls were "Betrothed" at about 12 years old in that culture and time. Mary was betrothed to Joseph, when she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.
2007-10-11 07:18:15 · answer #6 · answered by the sower 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary's age is not stated in the Bible.
However, anthropologists say that girls/women of this time period usually married and started having families when they were young teenagers.
2007-10-11 07:22:12 · answer #7 · answered by bikerchickjill 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She would have been about thirteen.
By tradition she would have been married by 12 or 13.
2007-10-11 07:21:39 · answer #8 · answered by Wandering_Man 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd hazard a guess at 13 or 14
2007-10-11 07:15:48 · answer #9 · answered by Moonlit Hemlock 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe scholars have determined she was around 16 years of age. I can't remember how they figured it out though.
2007-10-11 07:17:30 · answer #10 · answered by osborne_pkg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Gospel of Peter, 12. Yea....not cool.
2007-10-11 07:19:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋