A Christian accepts that the god of the Jews is God, that he had a son named Jesus Christ, who was crucified, that Mary was an eternal virgin and was, along with Jesus, the only person on Earth to have never sinned. Those are the basic beliefs.
If I believe that Mary was a sinner, it does not change the teaching that Jesus was the product of a virgin birth.
The Virgin Birth was due to God’s power, it is independent of Mary’s sinful nature, exhibited where she said “I rejoice in God my Savior.”
You've just shot a huge hole in Gamecock. Mormons would unhesitatingly subscribe to all those beliefs.
AC5691:” that Mary was an eternal virgin and was, along with Jesus, the only person on Earth to have never sinned.”
I wonder which group has more true Christians, the Mormon Church or the Roman Catholic Church?
Even though the RC church has deified Mary and made an idol of her, I still think they win hands down.
Personally, I think they both border on heresy and cultism. One is cannibalistic and iconic while the other is polytheistic...
Umm Marys eternal Chasity is *not* a cornerstone of Christianity. To believe she was chased until death or only until after the birth of Christ is not a dividing line
There is more scriptural evidence for her *not* being chased her whole life then her dying without knowing her husband.
Matthew 1:
21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not **until** she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
Ill take my Shot at it: One God in three distinct persons together one God head and eternal. Christ, one of the Godhead, was sent to serve the punishment for our sins and this grace *alone* accounts for salvation. Once you step outside of this you're in trouble... Though I am no theologian so Im sure my post can be picked apart..
How does Mary get to be an eternal virgin when she had several children by Joseph, her husband?
19 posted on 07/05/2007 7:41:42 AM MDT by AzaleaCity5691
Fixed by reading the Holy Word of Elohim. A Christian accepts that the god of the Jews is God, that he had a son named Jesus Christ, who was crucified, that Mary was a
b'shem Yah'shua n eternal virgin and was, along with Jesus, the only person on Earth to have never sinned. Those are the basic beliefs.