...I firmly believe that Mary, according to the words of the gospel as a pure Virgin brought forth for us the Son of God and in childbirth and after childbirth forever remained a pure, intact Virgin...
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Why ??? was she planning to have another baby sans an Earthy father at a later date ???
What was the need to get married but not have sex with her lawful husband if she could just keep on popping out babies on her own ???
No she got married so that she could have a normal relationship with the father that the baby would need there in the home...and naturally children followed..
Jesus needed a father a father and a mother to act normally and o be an example to him and teach Him what He would need to know to grow up normally..
Ya notice God never put Mary with another woman..there was no Jesus has two mommies..
God would not have gone against His own word..
Marriage did not stop because Jesus was born..it continued just as God had designed it centuries before..
and 2,000 years later marriage between a man and a women is still important to God...
Paul said:
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE FLESH.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:25-33
Why would Mary not fulfill all righteousness and be an example to the believers ???
Even the LORD Jesus Christ said that marriage included having sex...He never said except for my Mom..
“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Mark 10:6-10
Who would think that Mary or Joseph would have had any type of “separation” between them in their God ordained marriage ???
No they had a proper marriage ...
They didn’t live like brother and sister...they were man and wife...to be fruitful and multiply...
For me personally, it’s not important if Mary was perpetually virgin or had children through Joseph after Jesus’ virgin birth. In either case, scripture is fulfilled.
Even the LORD Jesus Christ said that marriage included having sex...He never said except for my Mom..
1 Corinthians 7:5 English Standard Version (ESV)
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time,
that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again,
so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.