(October 12, 2023 at 3:38 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The Bible seems explicit that Mary was not a virgin her whole life. So are Catholics just ignoring Matt 1:25, or did they find a loophole to believe that Mary was a perpetual virgin?
The author of Matthew (the actual Matthew was a tax collector, which means he went around breaking legs if you owed money) was an amateur theologian. He had a Greek copy of Isaiah that rendered almah in 7:14 as "parthenos" which he took to mean virgin, but the whole prophesy was about events in the reign of King Ahaz way back when anyway. Hijinks ensued.
