Mary's 10 Year Pregnancy!

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Why check a pregnant woman for virginity?

I've answered this a dozen times.

Mary was to marry Joseph

Joseph knew he did not Father a child with Marry

That meant to joseph, that Mary while bethrothed to him she had sex with someone else.

With me so far?

Now couple that with what the Law say in Deu 22:
23 “A man might meet a virgin girl engaged to another man. He might have sexual relations with her. If this happens in the city, 24 you must bring them both out to the public place near the gate of that city, and you must kill them with stones. You must kill the man, because he used another man’s wife for sexual sin. And you must kill the girl, because she was in the city but did not call for help. You must remove this evil from your people.

So to be pregnant by another man while bethrothed to joseph would have meant a death sentence for Mary.

Then the question becomes why didn't joseph Claim the child as his own? Because that puts Him in a lot of hot water.

Solution? Tell the truth. Mary did not have sex with anyone. With such a claim comes full accountability for her words. Meaning death if her claim could not be verified.

And it also makes me wonder why god would not want to let everyone know. Wouldn't that have cleared everything up? Why do things in such a hush-hush manner?

What did Herod do when he did find out?

Its not really my place to argue this but as I understand it there is no record of Mary being checked for her virginal status.

The reason for this is that Joseph didn't need to - he was visited by the Angel of the Lord in a dream and told why she was pregnant and what he had to do.

The testing is an invention on your part.

I have had long discussions with fervent Christians who belaboured this point to me many times.

In fact, of course, the definition of a virgin was the Hymen being in tact in those times (and still today in many parts of the world). This actually doesn't prove that sexual intercourse has not happened. There are cases where women have to have their hymen's surgically cut as it doesn't brake during intercourse.

Its not common of course, but it does happen, and it is a lot more common that virgin birth.

I have no idea why I am making this argument.