[Dr. Eckleburg]

I just don't get the *weight* placed on perpetual Virginity. I have seen people go so far as to say that if after Christ had been Born Mary later had relations *with her husband* that she would have been a whore!

To me the Nature of Christ and the Gospel of Christ has Nothing to do with Mary. As special as she must have been in Gods eyes for him to use her as he did its still completely insignificant to Christ.

AMEN!

Many pagan heresies sprang up in the days of the early church. It was inevitable. But that doesn't mean we need to agree with them.

This concoction of "perpetual virginity" of Mary only mirrors the RCC's schizophrenic mentality when it comes to sexuality, and that old "virgin/whore" dichotomy.

Loving, compassionate human sexuality in a God-ordained marriage between a husband and wife is a gift from God to His family, and that includes Mary and Joseph. So much so, in fact, that Christ used the metaphor of the bride and bridegroom several times when teaching us of His church on earth.

[N3WBI3]

“This concoction of “perpetual virginity” of Mary only mirrors the RCC’s schizophrenic mentality when it comes to sexuality, and that old “virgin/whore” dichotomy.”

It seems as if some get more offended when you say something along the lines of ‘Maybe she was or maybe she was not’. There are reasons to think she *could* have abstained (the age difference between her and Joseph for one. But I just think this falls under interesting debate which has nothing to do with the Gospel.