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To: Jvette
Mary didn’t practice birth control, she was chaste.

I agree, Mary was a chaste wife who had other children.

161 posted on 04/15/2014 8:27:13 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

There is no evidence in Scripture that Mary had other children. It is only by assumption that one can make that claim because no one other than Jesus is named as a child of Mary. Also, no one in Scripture is named as a child of Joseph much less as one of both.

I do understand why some hold the position that Mary and Joseph had children but that is not solidly supported in Scripture.

In considering both positions, I believe the early church writers and subsequent theologians who taught that Mary remained a virgin and had no other children.

With no Scripture to support the opposite belief, there is no question in my mind that the latter position is incorrect and was mainly developed out of anti Catholicism rather than real exegesis.


168 posted on 04/15/2014 10:10:36 AM PDT by Jvette
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