If Jesus had step-brothers how can anyone bielive that Mary stayed a virgin her whole life.?
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The bible never says Mary stayed a virgin.  It is very clear that Mary and Joseph had other children after Jesus' birth.  \nThe bible says that they waited to have sex until after Jesus was born.\nMatt 1\n23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. \n24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: \n25 And KNEW her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. \n\nWe would be foolish to think they stayed married their whole lives without having sex.  Plus the mention of Jesus' brothers and sisters confirms that they did.\n\nThe Catholics believe that Mary stayed a virgin so they could diefy her.  They want to put her on the same pedestal as Jesus and sometimes above Him.  \nIf they would just read the bible, they would understand that this is a false teaching and breaks the most sacred of the 10 commandments "Thou shalt have no other gods before me".
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She is a "virgin" because the historians lied to you. It is a sad day when people believe Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" before they believe in the traditional biblic interpretations, but the former is more logical. Hope this helps!
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Mary, if she even existed at all, knew nothing of any "immaculate conception". That was a story made up much later by Christian theologians who needed some way for Jesus to avoid being born under original sin, so they claimed that Mary's birth was "immaculate" by a special dispensation by God so that original sin wouldn't be imputed to her.
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Neither Mary nor Joseph, nor Jesus' brothers seem to know he is the Messiah.  I guess they just kind of forgot about the whole angel visitation and virgin birth thing.
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Yes mary was born with out sins, never sined (or had sex) and was assumed into heaven body and soul.  Joseph was on the other hand born with original sin but died a saint and went to heaven.
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I think it is very possible they were married, but maybe not.  There is some evidence that he may have been married and some that says the person he was married to was Mary Magdalene.  The big thing is - does it matter?  I don't believe that if he was married it changed his message at all.
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To answer your questions, \n\n1) Catholic priests understand that God is the only one who can forgive sin. But the Bible also teaches that we must confess our sins one to another.\n\n2) Mary was a virgin UP TO the time she had Jesus. Besides that, some scholars believe that the word for "brothers and/or sisters" referred to in the New Testament means brothers as in companion not blood relation.\n\n3) Mary remained sinless because she had to bare the sinless Christ. Since Jesus was sinless He couldn't have had Marys sinful genes.\n\n4) I believe that the Catholic Church believes that the Pope is infallible because he comes from a direct line of successors dating back to the Apostles, Who were infallible.\n\nI hope my answers were alright for you. If you have any more please feel free to e-mail me.
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1) The love of Jesus' life was mankind, whom He came and died for, not Mary Magdalene.\n2) Mary Magdalene is never called a prostitute in the Bible. The Roman Catholic Church removed this label from her in the 6th century.
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Son of God.  the bible tells us that mary was a virgin therefore Joeph could not have been the father.
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Jesus had a half brother named James.  He wrote one of the books in the bible.  There is no proof Jesus was married, that was a made up fact to promote a book and a movie.
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Mary and Joseph did screw around,\nJames came from them and did abound.\nHe is Jesus brother, or half-brother if you will,\nThey had sex, yes, that's the deal.
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In actual sense there is no exact record that Joseph DIED!\nThat has to be cleared first... No actual fact that says that he died or even was around when Jesus was older...\nOK lets do the math. Tradition of the church says that Jesus was born to a young maiden. So this would refer to a girl who is very young in fact.. which explains why many artists draw Mary as a young GIRL... i suppose in her early 15 at lest... and she was engaged with a man(again traditionally a widower) maybe around 30 or 40 or 50...no one knows! But Joseph was also silent in the gospels!\nJoseph could have died of natural causes... (old age)\nor something else... but this is for sure... he died because in the gospel of John, Jesus gives his mother to John to take care of.. would she go if she is already staying with a husband?!?!\nmakes no sense..\nJoseph probably died just before Jesus begun his public ministry. This silent carpenter died not that silent because by living and following the instruction of God, he saved both the lives of Jesus and Mary from King Herod... He followed a dream... He lived a godly life..
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Please refer to the Gospel accounts in the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).  You will note that Mary & Joseph did have sons so Jesus did have "half" brothers (in an earthly sense).  But remember that Jesus was all God and all Man.  Mary was just the way he entered the world as human. So technically, he was an only child - the Son of God.
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First of all angels are not magical, they are created by God, just as we are.  Secondly, Jewish custom had a method of courtship called betrothal, which actually meant the couple were married, they had a ceremony and everything, but they did not live together and actually dated with much supervision, like the whole of both families, and they worked to build up what would be their own abode, remember they are legally married, but no sex yet - it is during this time that the Holy spirit passed over Mary and she conceived.  Joseph was going to divorce her, as he like any man would, thought she had had sex with another man, but an angel came to him in a dream and told him otherwise, so he did as the angel directed him.  He did not have intercourse with Mary until after Jesus was born.  So, no he was not born before his earthly parents were married and no, they did not have sex before they were married.  And if a true Christian doesn't believe in angels, then question their Christianity.  You had excellent questions and observations, thank you - it's refreshing to get some for a change.
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i would say she was a virgin up to the moment where GOD sent her an angel that took a human form to give her the baby Jesus Christ... in all cases i am not sure if there's evidence that an intercourse took place between her and the angel.. because GOD simply tells a thing to be and it is
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Mary is Ever Virgin\nExodus 13:2,12 - Jesus is sometimes referred to as the "first-born" son of Mary. But "first-born" is a common Jewish expression meaning the first child to open the womb. It has nothing to do the mother having future children.\n\nExodus 34:20 - under the Mosaic law, the "first-born" son had to be sanctified. "First-born" status does not require a "second" born.\n\nEzek. 44:2 - Ezekiel prophesies that no man shall pass through the gate by which the Lord entered the world. This is a prophecy of Mary's perpetual virginity. Mary remained a virgin before, during and after the birth of Jesus.\n\nMark 6:3 - Jesus was always referred to as "the" son of Mary, not "a" son of Mary. Also "brothers" could have theoretically been Joseph's children from a former marriage that was dissolved by death. However, it is most likely, perhaps most certainly, that Joseph was a virgin, just as were Jesus and Mary. As such, they embodied the true Holy Family, fully consecrated to God.\n\nLuke 1:31,34 - the angel tells Mary that you "will" conceive (using the future tense). Mary responds by saying, "How shall this be?" Mary's response demonstrates that she had taken a vow of lifelong virginity by having no intention to have relations with a man. If Mary did not take such a vow of lifelong virginity, her question would make no sense at all (for we can assume she knew how a child is conceived). She was a consecrated Temple virgin as was an acceptable custom of the times. \n\nLuke 2:41-51 - in searching for Jesus and finding Him in the temple, there is never any mention of other siblings. \n\nJohn 7:3-4; Mark 3:21 - we see that younger "brothers" were advising Jesus. But this would have been extremely disrespectful for devout Jews if these were Jesus' biological brothers. \n\nJohn 19:26-27 - it would have been unthinkable for Jesus to commit the care of his mother to a friend if he had brothers.\n\nJohn 19:25 - the following verses prove that James and Joseph are Jesus' cousins and not his brothers: Mary the wife of Clopas is the sister of the Virgin Mary. \n\nMatt. 27:61, 28:1 - Matthew even refers to Mary the wife of Clopas as "the other Mary."\n\nMatt. 27:56; Mark 15:47 - Mary the wife of Clopas is the mother of James and Joseph.\n\nMark 6:3 - James and Joseph are called the "brothers" of Jesus. So James and Joseph are Jesus' cousins.\n\nMatt. 10:3 - James is also called the son of "Alpheus." This does not disprove that James is the son of Clopas. The name Alpheus may be Aramaic for Clopas, or James took a Greek name like Saul (Paul), or Mary remarried a man named Alpheus.\n\n Jesus' "Brothers" (adelphoi)) = Cousins or Kinsmen\nLuke 1:36 - Elizabeth is Mary's kinswoman. Some Bibles translate kinswoman as "cousin," but this is an improper translation because in Hebrew and Aramaic, there is no word for "cousin." \n\nLuke 22:32 - Jesus tells Peter to strengthen his "brethren." In this case, we clearly see Jesus using "brethren" to refer to the other apostles, not his biological brothers.\n\nActs 1:12-15 - the gathering of Jesus' "brothers" amounts to about 120. That is a lot of "brothers." Brother means kinsmen in Hebrew.\n\nActs 7:26; 11:1; 13:15,38; 15:3,23,32; 28:17,21 - these are some of many other examples where "brethren" does not mean blood relations.\n\nRom. 9:3 - Paul uses "brethren" and "kinsmen" interchangeably. "Brothers" of Jesus does not prove Mary had other children.\n\nGen. 11:26-28 - Lot is Abraham's nephew ("anepsios") / Gen. 13:8; 14:14,16 - Lot is still called Abraham's brother (adelphos") . This proves that, although a Greek word for cousin is "anepsios," Scripture also uses "adelphos" to desc
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What do you mean by believe? I believe she lived, and I believe she was the mother of Jesus, and I believe that she was a virgin until Jesus was born. I think you might mean Catholic practice of praying to Mary and so on. That I do not believe - not at all, as the Bible says nothing about praying to Mary. I don't pray to anyone but God the Father, but I do so in the name of Jesus - as the Bible says.\n\n\nThe Bible further states that Jesus had siblings, and says that Mary did not know her husband UNTIL Jesus was born (this last is found in Matthew, and the siblings part is in Mark 3:31). These half siblings would have been direct descendents of Mary, not of Jesus. There is nothing wrong with there being descendents related to Jesus... I think people think that if others were related to him, it would mean they were born with part of the Holy Spirit, since Jesus was conceived of the Spirit - but that's not true. The siblings were born of two humans and were all human. The Holy Spirit had nothing to do with their conceptions.