[aMorePerfectUnion]

No Biblical evidence that dear Mary remained a virgin after the birth of Christ.
No evidence any Apostle believed it.
No prophecy requires it.
To remain a virgin is a violation of God’s expressed command to be fruitful and multiply.
To remain a virgin is a violation of God’s expressed desire that married couples have sex.

It is, in short, made up out of whole cloth.

Simply an attempt to make Mary a demigoddess.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Agreed. The cult of Mary as practiced by some religions is simply a continuation of the Great Mother of Mediterranean lands

[Nea Wood]

Doesn’t the Bible say Jesus had siblings? I guess some people say the word should be translated “cousins,” but the arguments could go on forever.

I just don’t see why God would require Joseph and Mary to remain celibate forever. They were so obedient to Him; why wouldn’t God allow them, after the birth of Jesus, to have a normal marriage and more children? I don’t think a normal marriage and additional children would take anything away from Mary and what a special, obedient, and wonderful woman she was.

[agere_contra]

To remain a virgin is a violation of God’s expressed command to be fruitful and multiply.

You don't think Mary was fruitful?

She gave birth to Jesus Christ.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

[agere_contra]

If Mary had other children, then why did Christ create a new son for her on the cross?

Christ was Mary’s only child.

[metmom]

The marriage bed is undefiled.

Sex between a husband and wife is good and proper.

Denying each other is what’s wrong.

Mary was already betrothed to Joseph. She was already his wife when the angel visited her.

[sparklite2]

Well said. Perpetual virginity is a thin frame for all the robes piled upon it. Religions should be focused on higher things than reproductive necessities. The most viable reason for such focus seems to be what you have said: The human desire for a female deity.

[Salvation]

Yes, there is biblical evidence. **The teaching of the perpetual virginity of Mary does not rise or fall on one word, rather, a body of evidence from other sources such as: Mary’s question to the angel as to how a betrothed virgin would conceive; Jesus entrusting Mary to the care of a non-blood relative at this death; and also the long witness of ancient Tradition. **

[Elsie]

A thread about Rome's invented Mary and SEX! would SURELY get Elsie booted for a week or even two if he DARED to post the implications of what Rome teaches.

Therefore; the REST of you brave souls will have to joust with Rome's dragonkeepers.

[Coleus]

To remain a virgin is a violation of God’s expressed desire that married couples have sex.>>

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

[xzins]

To remain a virgin is a violation of God’s expressed command to be fruitful and multiply.

The Apostle Paul recommends it.

That said, I do think that scripture leans more toward Mary and Joseph having a regular marriage after the birth of Jesus. One can cite children, Jewish tradition, etc.

But what would others call her if she had children by more than one Father? I think that always was what was being avoided.