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To: MeanWestTexan

Perhaps I should have said that most people who claim to be Christians believe in the virgin birth of Christ. I was trying to avoid one of those interminable arguments about who is "really" a Christian. :)

As you say, most Protestants don't believe Mary was ever-virgin.

One of the more unusual things I've learned recently is that the Koran is very explicit that Jesus was born of a virgin. Moslems just doesn't believe he is God or the son of God.


49 posted on 11/30/2005 8:09:10 AM PST by Restorer (They want to die. We want to kill them. Cool!)
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To: Restorer

As you say, most Protestants don't believe Mary was ever-virgin.



Well, I must be in the minority because as a Lutheran I was taught all my life that she was a virgin.


54 posted on 11/30/2005 8:12:39 AM PST by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: Restorer

"Moslems just doesn't believe he is God or the son of God."

They also believe that Judas was crucified in His place, I believe.


74 posted on 11/30/2005 8:30:24 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: Restorer
One of the more unusual things I've learned recently is that the Koran is very explicit that Jesus was born of a virgin. Moslems just doesn't believe he is God or the son of God.

You know, one kind of follows from the other, so muslims are really going out on a limb here. Given how extremely dubious the claim of a virgin birth is, I would think that if someone was willing to accept the former they could accept the latter. Few things astonish me as much as the contortions of reason and rationality that humans will put themselves through on a daily basis in order to maintain their castles in the sky.

176 posted on 11/30/2005 11:56:17 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: Restorer
As you say, most Protestants don't believe Mary was ever-virgin.

Don't know where you got that info but you are dead wrong.

197 posted on 12/01/2005 2:37:25 PM PST by Vinnie
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