is this true and does the bible state it.. i remember hearing that mary was a virgin when she gave birth to jesus.. but does it ever state that she remind one?
2007-11-06 10:53:23 · 18 answers · asked by vis 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow.. so much info on this,.. i think i will let the community decide the out come.. but please look at the ones that are given hands down as well as hands up
2007-11-06 11:28:08 · update #1
Was Mary always a virgin?
Matt. 13:53-56, JB: “When Jesus had finished these parables he left the district; and, coming to his home town, he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished and said, ‘Where did the man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? This is the carpenter’s son, surely? Is not his mother the woman called Mary, and his brothers [Greek, a·del·phoi′] James and Joseph and Simon and Jude? His sisters [Greek, a·del·phai′], too, are they not all here with us?’” (On the basis of this text, would you conclude that Jesus was Mary’s only child or that she had other sons as well as daughters?)
The New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967, Vol. IX, p. 337) admits regarding the Greek words a·del·phoi′ and a·del·phai′, used at Matthew 13:55, 56, that these “have the meaning of full blood brother and sister in the Greek-speaking world of the Evangelist’s time and would naturally be taken by his Greek reader in this sense. Toward the end of the 4th century (c. 380) Helvidius in a work now lost pressed this fact in order to attribute to Mary other children besides Jesus so as to make her a model for mothers of larger families. St. Jerome, motivated by the Church’s traditional faith in Mary’s perpetual virginity, wrote a tract against Helvidius (A.D. 383) in which he developed an explanation . . . that is still in vogue among Catholic scholars.”
Mark 3:31-35, JB: “His mother and brothers now arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you’. He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking round at those sitting in a circle about him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’” (Here a clear distinction is drawn between Jesus’ natural brothers and his spiritual brothers, his disciples. No one claims that the reference to Jesus’ mother means anything different from what it says. Is it consistent, then, to reason that his natural brothers were not that but were perhaps cousins? When what is meant is not brothers but relatives, a different Greek word [syg·ge·non′] is used, as at Luke 21:16.)
2007-11-06 11:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow I am proud of you, for one not too many folks would ask something like that they would just stay in there norm of what they believe in or what-ever they were brought up to believe well let me tell you that yes Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus but no she did not stay a virgin and it dose say it in the bible if you keep reading you will find out that Mary had more children and that those were from normal births. well you keep the faith and follow it look and you will find. be-live and you will conquer trust and you will be sure. of everything you read. good luck.
2007-11-08 02:22:30 · answer #2 · answered by liza200471473 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, three half brothers and possibly two half sisters. Of course
Mary was a virgin when she had Christ because Joseph wasn't
his biological father. The Holy Spirit put the seed into Mary.
After the Lord was born she had normal sexual relations with
her husband Joseph.
The answer to the last question was made up by the RCC.
She was also a sinner who needed a Savior and she died
and her human body rotted in the ground and her spirit is with
the Lord Jesus.
2007-11-06 10:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Mary's first child was Jesus and the father was Jehovah God.
-Luk 1:27 and Matt 1:20
Mary then had more children with Joseph which makes them Jesus half brothers and sisters.
"Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, a brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters our neighbors here?" (Mk 6:3).
2007-11-07 01:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by keiichi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She remained a virgin until the birth of Jesus. After his birth her and Joseph "knew each other" and they did have other children. The book of James was written by Jesus' brother James and the Book of Jude was written by his brother Jude. The names of his sisters are not given.
2007-11-06 11:06:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
She was a virgin at Jesus' birth, but after He was born, she had physical reliations with Joseph and had many children with Joseph.
Mary isn't a virgin anymore.
Mary was a sinner that needed to be saved by Jesus like the rest of us. And Mary can't hear anyone "praying" to her.
2007-11-06 10:56:37 · answer #6 · answered by Chris 4 · 8⤊ 1⤋
John,Jonas, Judah,brother? and it is believed 2 or 3 sisters
(have head cold can't remember the other brother)
Jesus + 4 boys+ 3 girls = 8 kids is not a virgin....
Jewish tradition....Joesph could have divorced / put her away when she was with child.....also not share the marriage bed after and not produce any more children.....in that Jewish culture!!! never happen...
that is a catholic fantasy......
2007-11-06 11:08:51 · answer #7 · answered by coffee_pot12 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you guys are dumb
God does not have a son
he has messengers
jesus being one of them
mary was not a virgin. you must have sex to produce a child (at least in those times)
like anyone he has brothers sisters cousins aunts and uncles! Jesus is not a greater being like God, he's just some guy who started a religion!
2007-11-06 10:59:27 · answer #8 · answered by Ahem... 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
She had marital relations with her husband of course and as blessed with other children. I'm not sure why the Catholic church feels it would be a sin for her to have children with her husband.
2007-11-06 10:59:11 · answer #9 · answered by twincrier 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's in the Bible.
What Father K has so conveniently forgotten, is MATTHEW 12:46-50 which says:
While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.
Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you."
He replied to him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"
Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
What do you mean by "but does it ever state that she REMIND one"? Remind?
2007-11-06 10:56:37 · answer #10 · answered by thedavecorp 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋