RE: Did Mary and Joseph ever have sex?
March 18, 2020 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2020 at 5:16 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Oh well, this is an unsolvable conundrum for Christians. Catholics desperately want to believe Mary and Joseph never had sex, while protestants don't care.
The most honest article I could find is a protestant article that is taking into account what Catholics and some of the prominent Christians want to believe versus Mt. 1:25
Surprisingly, article calls out Catholic game of playing the usual "the world in the Bible has many meanings/ it is wrongly translated" as deceptive, just as their quick practice of changing the subject from Mt. 1:25 to some other verses.
But the conclusion from the article is:
So you heard it: it's one of those mysteries that Christians will learn the answer to when they are dead. Along with all the secrets from "Lost" and "Battlestar Galactica".
The most honest article I could find is a protestant article that is taking into account what Catholics and some of the prominent Christians want to believe versus Mt. 1:25
Surprisingly, article calls out Catholic game of playing the usual "the world in the Bible has many meanings/ it is wrongly translated" as deceptive, just as their quick practice of changing the subject from Mt. 1:25 to some other verses.
But the conclusion from the article is:
Quote:Both Martin Luther and John Calvin affirmed the perpetual virginity of Mary. Whether or not they and the Roman Catholic Church are correct will ultimately be decided when we encounter the Lord, and he reveals the truth to us in heaven.
https://carm.org/catholic/marys-virginity-and-matt-125
So you heard it: it's one of those mysteries that Christians will learn the answer to when they are dead. Along with all the secrets from "Lost" and "Battlestar Galactica".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
