[Iscool]

for you have “leave” without “cleave” in becoming one flesh (which oneness spiritually is also intercourse: Jn. 17:23)

Exactly...If Mary and Joseph did not have sexual relations, they were never married...

[Uri’el-2012]

If Mary and Joseph did not have sexual relations, they were never married...

Mary and Joseph were Jews in a Jewish culture.

Jewish culture does not have a cult of virginity.

Cults of virginity were associated with Pagan cults.

Hence the cult of Mary ever virgin is solely a Pagan cult.

The Roman "church" has much pagan syncretism.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach