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What I mean is, is she know to be a virgin just because the bible calls her a virgin, or because there is a reference in the bible of her being examined and proven to be a virgin, or are there references in the bible of witnesses that knew she was a virgin?Well, I guess I'd have to know if you believed in the Biblical account:
Luke 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.
I am not trying to be tacky, I am just asking. I am not asking for proof that she was a virgin, I am merely asking what the bibles basis is for the virginity of Mary.I don't believe anyone in the Bible put Mary in stirrups and checked to see if her hymen(sp?) was intact..... short of that..... I don't know what you'd consider evidence.
So they just took her word on it, or they just assumed she was?Verbal/Apostolic tradition...... which eventually was written down and become = the Bible.
Lycan; I can see why you are having trouble with this; you are trying to find out how, why, what evidence......Lycan said:So they just took her word on it, or they just assumed she was?
You are quite right Maize.... Mary was in fact a young, umarried girl at the time the time the Angels announced to hear that she was to bear a son.Maize said:Didn't 'virgin' also mean a young, unmarried girl? Not to say Mary wasn't or couldn't have been a virgin as we think of it. But maybe we're putting too much emphasis on the fact that she hadn't engaged in sexual intercourse. Maybe the Bible just means she was a young, unmarried woman?
Seems possible, i think i've heard that explanation before, similar to the Red Sea/Sea of Reeds thingy.jewscout said:Well i would say the concept of the "Virgin Mary" comes from a mistranslation of Jewish prophecy about the coming Moshiach that says that he will be born of a virgin when actually the translation should say, of a young woman. Then the writers of the Gospels took the translation and ran with it when scribing the story...
The Catholic Christian assembly followed the Septuagint.Well i would say the concept of the "Virgin Mary" comes from a mistranslation of Jewish prophecy about the coming Moshiach that says that he will be born of a virgin when actually the translation should say, of a young woman. Then the writers of the Gospels took the translation and ran with it when scribing the story...