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To: dcwusmc
If the RCC teaches that Mary was a virgin AND a married woman all her life, that is too ludicrous for words.

Everything has to revolve around sex, doesn't it? It's just impossible to believe that people can do without.

Imagine Joseph was much older, a widower. That he brought a young Mary into his protection because God told him to.

You Protestants seem so eager to have sex with Mary. Remember how the Ark of the Covenant caused boils and hemmorhoids to the unfortunate folks who "stole" it and touched it? Why? Cause it was God's seat. It was a holy thing.

Mary's womb was where God resided for 9 months. You do believe Jesus was always God right? Why would you want to risk defiling a holy place like that? And with your most prized possession, at that?

Parents raise all manner of children all the time and still have time and energy for a normal husband-and-wife relationship. Where does the RCC come up with this notion?

It's the Truth. There is no need to "come up" with the Truth. You do know that, don't you?

Aside from the fact that Mary's "cherry" would have vanished when her birth canal opened so that Jesus could emerge... unless you are saying that His BIRTH was another miracle that did not entail the usual things most births not Ceasarian entail, just so that she could stay virginal...

Without being any more vulgar than necessary, a woman's virginity is determined not by the state of her hymen, but by how many men she has had intercourse with. Mary remained a virgin even after Jesus passed through her.

What comes out does not make a woman an unvirgin, it is what goes in.

SD

425 posted on 11/04/2002 1:10:30 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
How can you show someone that what you say is "truth?"
Nor is it about sex, per se, but about what even the RCC champions, procreation or having a family. Something not feasible without sex. Especially in the days prior to artificial insemination and so forth. A man and woman were, essentially, directed to have a large family by the need, in most cases, to have hands to help with family work. Did not even Jesus follow in his (f)ather's footsteps of becoming a carpenter? In those days, as in many that followed, a large family was a NECESSITY. So kindly leave off the "wanna have sex with Mary" bs. And submit some backup for this otherwise ludicrous "belief" you want us to swallow. A woman's womb is not, that I ever heard, a "holy place." Even though Joseph and Mary were told by God what was happening, do you suppose they really comprehended the WHOLE of it? I seriously doubt it. I suspect this "belief" is no more than wishful thinking based on hindsight.
426 posted on 11/04/2002 2:35:02 PM PST by dcwusmc
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