The Virgin Mary is the "woman" told of in Genesis. This is why Jesus calls her "woman"?
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Yes. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Second Eve, just as her Son Is the Second Adam. \n\n Our Heavenly Father Created Mary to become an Eternal Enemy to Satan, when He Chose her to become the Mother Of His Only Son. Because of this, Satan has a great & profound Hatred for the Holy Virgin.\n\n Revelations chapter 12 also confirms this too.
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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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She preached and was anointed a "MAN in Christ" by Jesus himself according the Gospel of Mary, a recently discovered Coptic text. Thus allowing her to preach like a man was allowed to. Jesus was less concerned about woman preaching that Paul or the Catholic Church was.\n\nShe also wrote what the Catholics LABELED as the Gospel of John. I believe this is what Da Vinci was trying to tell us by putting Mary in John's place in his paining of the last Supper.\n\nMary was the MOST beloved disciple; she was even the first that Jesus appeared to after his death; she was the only disciple not to forsake Jesus during his trial and murder and according to Thomas, he kissed her differently than he kissed the other disciples.\n\nOther disciples admitted these things after Jesus died.\n\nHowever there is no indication, even in these Coptic or Greek text that Mary carried Jesus seed.
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if you read your the Bible then you will find that there is Mary the mother of Jesus , Mary Magdalen , and Mary the sister of Lazarus..so therefore there is three Marys that i remember............and they are all diffent people...
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It is the belief that Mary was conceived without original sin.  It has nothing to do with the virgin conception of Jesus.
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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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We, as Catholics, refer to the Church as a her due to the nurturing that is to take place within the confines of the church.  Just like a mother, we learn from her and put what she teaches us into our everyday life.  We also believe that Mary, the virgin, was the mother of God and the mother of the Church which was founded by Jesus during his time on earth.  Does that help?
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Wow, your question was confusing, I had to re-read it a few times. But, it's not a dumb question and I dont think it was a mean spirited question. Adam was the first man, fashioned from the dust and the breath of God in the image of God. Eve was the first woman made of Adams rib and the breath of God. They had children, namely 3 sons, Cain, Able, and Seth. So if you keep reading the bible from there, there are geneologies and you can see who begat whom on down the line. Long after Adam and many of his descendants had died, from the lineage of King David, a woman named Mary was bethrothed to a man named Joseph. Mary was indeed a virgin as she was not yet married. The Angel of the Lord came to her and told her that she was pregnant with our Savior, the Son of God.  What a daunting message, but God prepared for her just the right fiance, who loved her enough that at this seemingly crazy tale that he decided to preserve her life, her honor and put her away in secret. Well, the Angel of the Lord came to Joseph too, and told him that it is true, the baby is God's and your fiance's still a virgin (to paraphrase) If you read the Bible you'll get a more detailed version of this piece of History. The Baby Jesus grew to be a Man, all His life Jesus was close to God, His Father and prayed to him, because God is 3 persons, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. So, although Jesus is very much God, He is the Son of the Father. So, that is why Jesus is completely perfect and had no sin, and was able to sacrifice himself for us. At that moment when Jesus asked the Father "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" He was extending that same grace to us too, even now. Jesus did not escape crucifixion, he did not escape death. He conquered death, he conquered the old law of the old testament that said there must be a sacrifice, a blood atonement for all sins. We were all born into sin because of Adam and Eve chosing to follow thier flesh and give in to temptation. We were permanantly severed from God, and still are if we dont believe that Jesus is God made flesh, and is God's Son. We must believe that and believe that Jesus did die that day on the cross, that he laid in a tomb dead, but was resurrected on the 3rd Day and that he ascended into heaven very much alive and there he sits at the right hand of the father, leaving The Holy Spirit ever interceding for us. That is the truth and the only way to be allowed into God's presence upon our death here on Earth. There is no blaspemy in that. Jesus was brought to trial for that, because he in no uncertain terms claimed his rightful title as The Son of God. He was found faultless by Pilate, however, the crowd shouted "Crucify Him" and took a foul murderer to be released and the mob sentanced thier own King thier own Savior to die. But, it was what had to be done. Jesus said before his crucifixion, "No one takes my life, I willingly lay it down".
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it's Cain, honey. and yes, the bible doesn't mention even her presence(really discriminatory don't you think? men think their all that!)
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God formed her after removing Adam's rib.  So there were other factors in creating woman that would keep her dna from being the same.
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The bible really doesn't say where all the other women came from so this is a good question.\n\nI once asked a minister where did the women that the children of Adam and Eve married come from.  I was told they married sisters but back then they were still so nearly perfect from the hand of God that it wasn't a problem genetically. That was a good technical answer but it still left me wondering because the bible doesn't mention any other children of Adam and Eve....
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Hang on sir. :)\nThe Madonna (Mary) was Jesus's mother. She was not a wife to anyone because she was not married.\n\nThrough God, she gave birth to Jesus.\n\nIm not sure why you think this could be another name for Islam?!
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Read the Bible.  The messiah was prophesized to be "born of a virgin."  Thus, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit.\n\nThat is not, however, the Immaculate Conception.  The immaculate conception was the process by which Mary, mother of Jesus, was conceived.  This meant that Mary was conceived without original sin.  This is important because, as we read in the Torah (1st 5 books of the Bible), we see that the Arc of the Covenant (box that held God's Law) had to be pure and perfect.  Thus the new Covenant of God with Man, Jesus, should also be housed in a pure and perfect container until birth.  That means Mary had to be perfect, free from sin...even original sin.\n\n****\n\nSomeone quoted Mary as saying "My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."  Remember that, at this point, Jesus was not born.  God, being the savior of the jews from Egypt, is the savior Mary references.  All jews know God as Master and Savior.  Read the Psalms.  God is constantly being referred to as someone's rock, their savior, and their shelter.  Mary's calling God her savior does not equate to her declaring herself sinful.  It simply declares that God saves His people, Israel.
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Mary was a normal human like everyone else.  She never preformed miracles, and she didn't stay a virgin much longer after Jesus was born.  She gave birth to Jesus' brother.    And right now (sorry Catholics) Mary is a dead woman who is nothing special.  What if a woman named "Suzan" gave birth to Jesus?  Would people start praying to "the virgin Suzan"?  Dead people don't hear prayers, only God does.
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john chapetr 12:1-3? it just says mary. some take that to mean mary magdalene.\nyou must not assume mary magdalene was a whore. the bible doesn't say that.
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Because someone told Adam and Eve they were naked!\n\nBereshit - Genesis vs.\n24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.\n\n25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.\n\nthen >>>\nBereshit - Genesis\nChapter 3\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which HaShem G-d had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath G-d said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'\n\n2 And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;\n\n3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, G-d hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'\n\n4 And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;\n\n5 for G-d doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as G-d, knowing good and evil.'\n\n6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.\n\n7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.\n\n8 And they heard the voice of HaShem G-d walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of HaShem G-d amongst the trees of the garden.\n\n9 And HaShem G-d called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'\n\n10 And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'\n\n11 And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
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we think "hey, how come christian bibles translate the word hebrew word for woman to mean virgin, even though thats not what it means? could it be because they have an agenda and are trying to dupe people who are ignorant of hebrew into believing in their idolatrous cult?"\n\nFather K - its called history. the jewish rabbis only translated the torah. the torah does not include isaiah.