Non biased, fair question: How do people know that the Virgin Mary was really a Virgin?

Question

NO cop out answers please. If you don't know, say you don't know.

THANK YOU agnostic boy. It kinda sucks that the most intelligent, sensible response is coming from a person with the name 'agnostic boy' seeing as it is that I want to establish a reasonable discussion from BOTH SIDES but you are right, some people are just NOT MAKING SENSE.

For example; Why is it true just because it is written? This is called the Halo Effect. It digresses everything. It's a fallacy.

Nightwind, are you saying that we should just accept what other people tell us, without questioning why?

Nightwind, if this is faith, then what's the difference between faith and gullibility?

Answer 1

the real answer is very simple. the word virgin in the ancient Hebrew language referred to a woman who was not married.

It did not mean that she had never had sex. To have sex before marriage would have meant being stoned to death.

To get caught pregnant out of wedlock was sure execution .

Answer 2

The answer to this question is simple, perhaps too simple for many to comprehend. But I will give it to you anyway, since you asked. By the way, this is not a "cop out" answer, so please don't classify it as such, just because you may not understand it. Thanks.

We know that the Virgin Mary was really a virgin (and still is) by FAITH. Faith is the only way that you will ever "know" the Truth that the Church has always taught, teaches now, and will always teach: the Blessed Virgin Mary was a virgin "before conceiving, while conceiving and after conceiving" the Son of God, Jesus Christ Our Lord. If you do not make an act of freely adhering to the Faith taught by the Catholic Church, then try all you want, but you will never "know" that the Virgin Mary was truly a virgin.

Faith alone will give you the answer. There are some spiritual realities that faith alone can help you see: the Blessed Trinity, the Incarnation, the Holy Eucharist, etc. And the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of these.

In the words of St. Augustine (I think): "Believe that you may know, and know that you may believe".

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

they dont, and they never will, my opinion is that her parents created and embellished the hoax to prevent shame from falling upon thier daughter for being a human and having sex. watch the 3 zeitgeist movies on youtube. you will see that christianity and many many religions both before that time and after have all been regurgitated and plagarized from the egyptian sun god Ra. it is astounding that people in the modern age still believe the tards that lived thousands of years ago with no science, its just rediculous actually

Answer 4

I have questioned this one myself many times, Don't have a go at me, this is my theory. In the times of Mary, it was a crime to commit adultery, and the sentence was death by stoning. I think Mary had an affair, and got pregnant. To avoid being stoned to death, she told everyone that she had been chosen by God to bear his son. In those day's people were very naive, and Mary was made a local hero I do not believe in the Bible, and that is my theory.

Answer 5

The same way we know the Bible is true. The only way anyone can know any truth of the faith - it is infallibly taught by God's Church, the biblical "pillar and foundation of truth" which "the Holy Spirit guides into all truth". Everything God's Church "binds upon earth is bound in heaven". That's what the Word of God states. The perpetual virginity of Mary is binding teaching of God's Church. It is therefore bound in heaven, a guarantee of truth. That's what God's Word tells us. Accept it or reject it.

Answer 6

An angel came to Joseph and told him that Mary would conceive a child and not to be afraid....Joseph was going to leave her, he knew it was not his....And the angel came to Mary.....There were lot's of miracles working in this birth of Jesus....
The old testament fore told the birth of Jesus but the Rabbi's did not even see it just as many people do not understand the "Rapture" that will happen....it is as clear as day light in the bible and many cannot believe it.....

Answer 7

we dont. Im assuming they call it faith cause you have to believe and not know. and frankly knowledge(or the one you can use anyway) gets you ahead in life or is more beneficial than beliefs. you can believe all you want about anything and that wont get you ahead in life, having knowledge and knowing how to use it will.

but god wants us to believe and not know. so Id have to say we dont.

and to mr. clean, you do realize that is a fallacy right? thats called circular reasoning or begging the question, yes it may say in the bible but how does it make it true. you're only saying who said it not why.

same goes to darwinman and to antihero. I could write "the ski is orange at night" or write that "2+2=6" and that doesnt make it true.

Answer 8

It is written.

Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Luk 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Luk 1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
Luk 1:30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
Luk 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luk 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Luk 1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Luk 1:34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

Answer 9

How do people know Lazarus rose from the dead? That Jesus was the son of God? That Joah survived inside a whale? It's faith. You either accept it or you don't.

Answer 10

Durr! Because the bible said so, and that must be true it was written by a man that heard it form a man that heard it from a man that heard it from a man that..........