Well, that's generally true, escept for that one, very extraordinary time!
"So since Mary was already married in effect to Joseph..."
No, she wasn't already married in effect. They were betrothed. You could say there was a broken engagement due to Enormous Changes At The Last Minute... but Joseph was a real mensch, he took it nice!
"G-d did not get Mary pregnant."
Did too! (Ahem.) Now really, what a dilemma: "Who to believe? Blasater or the Angel? Blasater or the Angel? (Making a weighing motion with both hands.)-- Hmm, that's a toughie."
"That is a common myth in pagan cultures."
Irrelevant. All the truths about the True God can be found in some form in various pagan cultures. All the pagans have some access to the truth, some garbled and fragmentary, some quite coherent and noble. One reason -- the main reason, apparently --- that C.S. Lewis became a Christian, is that J.R.R. Tolkien impressed him with the insight that all the "good bits," that are benign and lovely and true in the vague legends of the pagans, were actually, concretely, historically true about Christ. His is the Reality that fulfills all the longings of men in all the ages, the longings that are disclosed in their dreams and myths.
Besides, if Mary is not united in mystical marriage with the Spirit, then who is? Who is the Bride in Revelation 22:17 "The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come!'" ?
Just curious. My ears are perked.
No exceptions! The infinite G-d of the universe (who has no form Deut 4:15, is not going to marry Mary. If that were permissible, He would have said so plainly. There is not one scripture in Tanakh (OT) that says in the future G-d will do this for mankind.
No, she wasn't already married in effect. They were betrothed.
Betrothed is the begining state of marriage. So to take your reasoning then, G-d convincing Mary to have a child of a betrothed woman would make her a fornicator. Either way it is an immoral relationship. G-d doesnt do immoral acts.
It is not weighing Blasater vs Angel. It is G-d vs NT teachings and I choose G-d and so should you! No where the Tanakh (OT) Does G-d say he is going to impregnate a botrothed mortal woman. Christians try to cite Isaiah 7 but it is completely and thoroughly wrong do do so. Read this! I double dog dare you! part 1 and 2.