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That when her time of healing was over and she was ritually purified in accordance with Hebrew law, she began normal sexual relations with her husband and conceived and delivered more children over the years.

I don't dispute that. The point is she was a virgin at the time of her conception by the Holy Spirit. That's why Catholics speak of the Immaculate Conception.

Nobody in their right mind disputes that Mary had other children after Jesus. One of them was actually opposed to Jesus, theologically speaking. But even he came to his right senses, in time.

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I don't dispute that. The point is she was a virgin at the time of her conception by the Holy Spirit. That's why Catholics speak of the Immaculate Conception.

You'd better go back to CCD. The immaculte conception is the exclusively Catholic doctrine that MARY was conceived without sin, and led a sinless life.

All Christians believe Mary was a virgin when she conceived Jesus.

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Nobody in their right mind disputes that Mary had other children after Jesus

Tell that to the HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH please. They most emphatically do. "The ever-virgin Mary"

[Quix]

PRAISE GOD FOR DEMONSTRATING YOU ARE IN YOUR RIGHT MIND ON THOSE ISSUE! That’s a relief, for sure!

However, Dear Sister, we have had many rabid ‘true believer’ types of Roman Catholics et al hereon screechingly insist that our perspective is totally wrong on such scores.

Amazing. Shockingly amazing. They insist that the Scriptural reference to Christ’s brothers and sisters meant His cousins—as though the languages could not distinguish and the translators were stupid.

Sigh.