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Was Mary a Virgin all her life?

You know how they call the mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary. Is this to say that she remained a virgin all her life? As in, Jesus never had any siblings and Joseph/Mary had a somewhat platonic marriage?

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let's have an Insult the Queen of Heaven thread
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Original post by the bear
let's have an Insult the Queen of Heaven thread


No no I'm being serious I don't mean to insult - I could have made comment like "Joseph never got any" but I didn't - I'm actually curious as to whether or not she remained virginal all her life.
Pretty sure ma boi Jo$eph got it in eventually
No. She had other children from what i can recall

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all the facts you need are here:

http://www.catholictreasury.info/mary.php
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Add!ction
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I thought she stayed a virgin.
No she got it on with Joseph eventually and had other kids, it's because when she was a virgin when she conceived Jesus :smile:
The Catholics have a very..very..odd view on the matter, so I would ignore that.

However, no she had other children, James(Jesus's brother) for one.
Jesus had brothers born of Mary.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+13%3A55&version=ESV

So, unless God impregnated her for these guys too, it's safe to say she wasn't always the Virgin Mary.
Mary was only a virgin until Jesus. The angel story is essentially just an elaborate lie you tell your parents so they don't assume you're a little whore.
I don't know what the theological basis for the perpetual virginity of Mary is, so at this point I cannot accept it

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all the facts you need are here:

http://www.catholictreasury.info/mary.php


The Bible clearly states she had other children.
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Pretty sure ma boi Jo$eph got it in eventually


This.

Joseph hit that **** raw dog and bailed.

God got left raising another man's kid - pretty ****ing beta for a divine being don't you think?
Did she have a child?

Then she probably wasn't a virgin.
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Original post by The_Dragonborn
You know how they call the mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary. Is this to say that she remained a virgin all her life? As in, Jesus never had any siblings and Joseph/Mary had a somewhat platonic marriage?


Well just on a theological basis (that is, ignoring the accuracy, or rather lack thereof, of Christian doctrine), I'm fairly certain James was supposed to be Jesus' younger brother so no - or at least that's the C of E position, I think the Catholic interpretation is somewhat different. I'm not particularly religious so I might be incorrect.
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No because she never existed :rofl2:
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No because she never existed :rofl2:


So did Jesus never exist, either?
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So did Jesus never exist, either?


No, there was just someone around back then, who was probably as good as Dynamo or something, who used Jesus as his stage name.
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Christ this is like debating how smelly unicorn **** is.

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