Which Virgin was the mother of Jesus?  Was it the Virgin Mary or The King James Virgin?
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it's so funny. how can this be a serious question in a normal world.\n\nwhich VIRGIN was the MOTHER of.....\n\nLOL !!!
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she is  the mother of Jesus  who is considered one of the most important prophets of Islam.\nquran respected her as a mother of jesus \nthe nineteenth chapter of the Qur'an is named after her and is about her life.\nAccording to the Qur'an, Mary's father was Nabi Imran and her mother is unnamed\n The mother of Mary, said: "O my Lord! I do dedicate into Thee what is in my womb for Thy special service: So accept this of me: For Thou hearest and knowest all things." (Qur'an 3:35). When Mary was delivered, she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!" (Qur'an 3:36). She had expected her baby to be a male child \n\nThe Qur'an quite decisively declares that Jesus was the result of a virgin birth\nSura 5 Signs 116-119 of The Qur'an includes the Prophecy of the Judgement Day where "Jesus son of Mary" will be questioned by God as regards those who worship him and Mary, and that Jesus will deny them\n\nHoly Virgin Mary is regarded as the best woman that ever came on the face of the Earth. There are several verses in the Quran that praise her and confirm that she was an extremely chaste and pious woman. Mary is also the Queen of All Women in Heaven.
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"It seems every religion has a guy whose mommy didn't have sex,..."\n\nWhere does it say Mary didn't have sex?  Or, who says Mary didn't have sex after the angel Gabriel visited her?
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That's a very good question. If you are a Christian who believes that Jesus was devine and son to a virgin, then I would suppose you could just say God made him that way....complete with HIS chromosomes. It's all about faith.\n\nIf you aren't a Christian, then I would say to you that it is a possibility that Mary was raped by a Roman soldier or a man in the community. So that would explain his other chromosomes. \n\nThere's really no answer, my friend.
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Personally, no. Mary was a Virgin, Immaculately Conceived, and was assumed into Heaven as a Virgin. \n\nHowever, some scholars believed that St. Joseph was a widow who was elderly and had grown up children  from that previous marriage and married the adolescent Mary as a favor to the High Priests of the Temple. Hence, Jesus had step-brothers. Other say that his reference to brothers is synonymous to cousins, which is how it was used back then, and still used today. \n\nOn Suday of Resurrection, the History Channel had a program about him, and on this topic you have brought up. The web History Channel web site might provide links to that show, as well as internet links to follow up on this subject.
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Mary, the mother of Jesus.  She could have said "no" but she said "yes" and stood by her son and God through everything.  She was a strong woman (she instigated Jesus' first miracle) and is a great model for us.\n\nGood question, thanks!
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The Catholic church calls her the Virgin Mary. The Protestant church just calls her Mary. Despite the fact that the Bible records that Jesus had brothers. The Catholic church edits this out of their Bible and calls Mary a perpetual virgin.\n\nMary only had one virgin conception and birth, and that was Jesus. After that, she conceived via Joseph.\n\nSee my explanation below for the reason for the virgin birth.
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Well it all goes back to the 15th and 16th centruy.  Spain, who are pious catholics, conquered Mexico and south/central america and converted the indians to catholicism.  Mary is the most common name in honor of Jesus' mother.
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Well... The Virgin Mary is the mother of God. She gave birth to Jesus Christ.\nSaint Brigid was the daughter of Dubtach, pagan Scottish king of Leinster, and Brocca, a Christian Pictish slave who had been baptized by Saint Patrick. Just before Brigid's birth, her mother was sold to a Druid landowner. Brigid remained with her mother till she was old enough to serve her legal owner Dubtach, her father. \n\nSaint Brigid is the Patron Saint of babies and children who's parents are not married.
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That was Mary Magdalen.  Some people believe she was actually the wife of Jesus.
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Mary's parents were Joachim and Anne.  Both are saints of the Roman Catholic Church.  She was probably born around 12 or 13 BC, perhaps earlier, since she is presumed to have been fairly young when Christ was born in 1 AD.  Where was she born?  Somewhere in Galilee.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God. \nFundamentalists are sometimes horrified when the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Mother of God. However, their reaction often rests upon a misapprehension of not only what this particular title of Mary signifies but also who Jesus was, and what their own theological forebears, the Protestant Reformers, had to say regarding this doctrine. \n\nA woman is a man’s mother either if she carried him in her womb or if she was the woman contributing half of his genetic matter or both. Mary was the mother of Jesus in both of these senses; because she not only carried Jesus in her womb but also supplied all of the genetic matter for his human body, since it was through her—not Joseph—that Jesus "was descended from David according to the flesh" (Rom. 1:3). \n\nSince Mary is Jesus’ mother, it must be concluded that she is also the Mother of God: If Mary is the mother of Jesus, and if Jesus is God, then Mary is the Mother of God. There is no way out of this logical syllogism, the valid form of which has been recognized by classical logicians since before the time of Christ. \n\nAlthough Mary is the Mother of God, she is not his mother in the sense that she is older than God or the source of her Son’s divinity, for she is neither. Rather, we say that she is the Mother of God in the sense that she carried in her womb a divine person—Jesus Christ, God "in the flesh" (2 John 7, cf. John 1:14)—and in the sense that she contributed the genetic matter to the human form God took in Jesus Christ. \n\nTo avoid this conclusion, Fundamentalists often assert that Mary did not carry God in her womb, but only carried Christ’s human nature. This assertion reinvents a heresy from the fifth century known as Nestorianism, which runs aground on the fact that a mother does not merely carry the human nature of her child in her womb. Rather, she carries the person of her child. Women do not give birth to human natures; they give birth to persons. Mary thus carried and gave birth to the person of Jesus Christ, and the person she gave birth to was God. \n\nThe Nestorian claim that Mary did not give birth to the unified person of Jesus Christ attempts to separate Christ’s human nature from his divine nature, creating two separate and distinct persons—one divine and one human—united in a loose affiliation. It is therefore a Christological heresy, which even the Protestant Reformers recognized. Both Martin Luther and John Calvin insisted on Mary’s divine maternity. In fact, it even appears that Nestorius himself may not have believed the heresy named after him. Further, the church he founded has now signed a joint declaration on Christology with the Catholic Church and recognizes Mary’s divine maternity, just as other Christians do. \n\nSince denying that Mary is God’s mother implies doubt about Jesus’ divinity, it is clear why Christians (until recent times) have been unanimous in proclaiming Mary as Mother of God\n\n\nTHE FACT OF THE ASSUMPTION\n\nRegarding the day, year, and manner of Our Lady's death, nothing certain is known. The earliest known literary reference to the Assumption is found in the Greek work De Obitu S. Dominae. Catholic faith, however, has always derived our knowledge of the mystery from Apostolic Tradition. Epiphanius acknowledged that he knew nothing definite about it . The dates assigned for it vary between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension. Two cities claim to be the place of her departure: Jerusalem and Ephesus. Common consent favours Jerusalem, where her tomb is shown; but some argue in favour of Ephesus. The first six centuries did not know of the tomb of Mary at Jerusalem. \n\nThe belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the boo
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People need to keep in mind that The Da Vinci Code was written as a work of fiction and not get quite so tied up in knots about it.\n\nHow many Mary's in the bible?  Gosh, I don't really know for sure: \n\nMary, the mother of Jesus\nMary, the sister of Lazarus and Martha\nMary Magdalen\n\nWere there others?
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None, Jesus was the only human that was without sin.  He was perfect in everyway and also the son of God.  Mother Theresa and others like her only did the will of God.  There were apostles in the bible who endured greater and did more than Mother Theresa and never did they dare to compare themselves to Christ.
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The whole issue of Mary being "The Mother of God" is ridiculous. Are people suggesting that Christ did not exist before he came to earth?? He always existed (John CH.1 V1-14) There is very Little mentioned in the Bible about Mary and whilst an angle appeared to her before the birth of Christ and told her what would happen in the near future and told her that she was "blessed amongst women" The bible is clear on the issue of there being only one mediator between man and God who is Jesus Christ.Christ said in John Ch.14 V6 "I am the way, the truth and the life; No man cometh to the Father but by me."  \nNo one but Christ himself can make intercession for us. \nPraying to Mary or one of the saints is totally futile as this is against what the Bible teaches. Aside from acknowledging that Mary was "blessed amongst women" the Lord did not place any other special emphasis on her as the entire point of focus is on Christ as he alone can save us and no one else. We believe that Mary had other children after the birth of Christ as he refered to his brothers. Why wouldn't Mary have had other children as she was young and married??\nThere is too much emphasis placed on Mary and Praying the rosary. Jesus was right when he said that people think that God will hear them for their much rambling and babbling but he doesn't. Jesus gave the example of prayer (The Lords Prayer) in that he addressed his prayer directly to God himself "Our Father who art in heaven....." \n\nIt is important to note that Jesus didn't come to establish a religion, he came to establish a RELATIONSHIP between man and god.\nIts little wonder that the Catholics are soo confused as the Catholic Church added 2 books to the King James Bible.\nThe King James has 66 books, the Catholic Bible has 68 books. Doubtlessly they overlooked the fact that there is a dire warding in Revelations being "If anyone shall add to the words of the prophesy of this book, God will add unto them the plagues that are written in this book" One of the plagues is, of course, death.\nHope this helps.
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According the the story, God caused Mary to conceive, thus being his father.  Mary did not have sex with Joseph.  He was like a surrogate father to Jesus. OK?
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St. Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth or Elisheva (Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע / אֱלִישָׁבַע "My God is an oath", Standard Hebrew Elišévaʿ / Elišávaʿ, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîšéḇaʿ / ʾĔlîšāḇaʿ)(Arabic: إشاع) was the mother of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament.\n\nIn the Bible\nAccording to the Gospel of Luke, Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron the priest (Luke 1:5). She and her husband Zechariah were "righteous before God, living blamelessly" (1:6), but childless. Zechariah was visited by the Angel Gabriel, who told him his wife would have a son who "will be great in the sight of the Lord" (1:15).\n\nThe pregnant Elizabeth was visited by her cousin (1:36) Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus:\n\nWhen Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leapt in her womb. \nAnd Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry: \n"Blessed are you amongst women and blessed is the fruit of your womb." (1:41-2) \nElizabeth is not mentioned in the New Testament outside of the Gospel of Luke. Some modern sceptical scholars argue that she is a fictional character and that Luke invented the notion that Jesus and John the Baptist were related. However, their critics have pointed out such a claim is impossible to prove and that it would be ludicrous to dismiss a character like Elizabeth solely on the basis that she is mentioned in only one of the four Biblical gospels. There are several female characters who are mentioned in only one of the gospels - including Mary, the wife of Cleopas, Saint Joanna and the female apostle, Susanna. Some theologians have suggested that Elizabeth is included in Luke's nativity account because his version of events deliberately focuses more upon the personal experience of the Virgin Mary during her pregnancy than Matthew's account (the two other gospels, Mark and John, do not include an account of Jesus's birth and instead start their narratives at the beginning of his ministry.) Elizabeth is also mentioned in several books of the Apocrypha, most prominently in the Protevangelion of James, in which the birth of her son and the subsequent murder of her husband are chronicled.