Who Says Mary Was a Virgin?

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  @carolynsilvers9999 · 2 years ago

  I was raised in the same kind of upbringing, and I find this man's discoveries and courage to share them is refreshing

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• SP

  @SphinxEyez · 10 months ago

  I find it fascinating how misogyny runs all throughout the Old Testament, and then the woman said to birth the “divine man” had to be a virgin.<br><br>Even more telling, as Bart pointed out, the only two women given real prominence in the New Testament were a virgin and a “fallen woman.” That kind of extreme black-and-white framing feels eerily similar to the kind of thinking associated with narcissism: idealize or devalue, nothing in between.

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• GI

  @ginchen33 · 1 month ago

  I love listening to Megan and Bart, so relaxing and calming.

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• SO

  @socratesalive · 1 year ago

  Anytime Bart Ehrman speaks I listen—because school is in session.

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• MI

  @michaelbohrer4593 · 8 months ago

  For centuries the monks carefully copied the word &apos;celibate.&apos;<br>Then they found out it was supposed to be &apos;celebrate&apos; !

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• NU

  @NurudenMusah · 2 years ago

  This man needs to be celebrated

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• MZ

  @mzmscoyote · 2 years ago

  Listening about saintliness = sexual abstinence I again wonder why sex became the thing obsessed about and not one of the other sins. I still find it puzzling that lying, stealing, and killing never reach these heights of obsession in Christianity.

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• CU

  @cufflink44 · 2 years ago

  &quot;This business of the spirit coming upon her . . . &quot; 😂😂😂

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• ED

  @EduardQualls · 1 year ago

  Medieval illustrations of the &quot;Annunciation&quot; show the &quot;Holy Spirit&quot; as a dove, pecking or doing something to Mary&apos;s ear. The thought appears to be that the ear drum was the &quot;barrier&quot; that could be pierced to provide the path for insertion of the &quot;divine child,&quot; rather than breaking her hymen. This gives a whole new meaning to the request one might make for a speaker to repeat their last statement, &quot;Come again?&quot;<br>There is no illustration or explanation for how a child could be born while the hymen remained intact. In the infancy gospels his birth is essentially divine teleportation from the womb, out onto her lap, no placenta extant or ever needed—since then you&apos;d still need an exit of the &quot;afterbirth.&quot; Christian dogma is about as biologically ignorant as you can get..

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• JO

  @johnandmarylouwilde7882 · 2 years ago

  Years ago when I was a theological seminary librarian the newsletter of the National Association of Evangelicals published an interview with someone who had been on the team that translated the New International Version of the New Testament. Among other things he stated that all members of the team had to sign a pledge that they subscribed to the inerrency of the Bible. I couldn&apos;t find that stipulation in the preface to the translation. The interviewer then asked what they would do if some passage in the sources contradicted accepted dogma, &nbsp;for instance, &nbsp;&quot;what if the word usually translated as &quot;virgin&quot; actually meant &quot;young woman&quot;? He replied that in that case they would have to &nbsp;translate it virgin since the virgin birth was a fundamental doctrine. I asked a seminary professor, a New Testament scholar, to comment. Right away he &nbsp;stated, &quot;They are putting creed before scripture&quot;. I wrote the editor of the NAE newsletter &nbsp;and asked for his comment. His reply was, &quot;That&apos;s an interesting question&quot;.

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• TA

  @tabularasa0606 · 2 years ago

  Next you&apos;re going to tell me she didn&apos;t have a little lamb too.

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• SL

  @slik00silk84 · 2 years ago

  One has to wonder why a young maiden would be marrying a much older man such as Joseph was. &nbsp; &nbsp;It is not as if he was a rich, or a prominent man. &nbsp;<br>No, he was only a carpenter or something like that. &nbsp; If Mary was the daughter of a priest as some church tradition alleges &nbsp;. . . it is even more puzzling. &nbsp; <br>But . . . what if he was the answer to a problem? &nbsp;<br><br>What if through some misadventure, Mary turned up pregnant, and for some reason, the daddy couldn&apos;t, or wouldn&apos;t . . . &nbsp;do right by her. &nbsp;That could have resulted in a stoning of Mary. &nbsp;So . . . a husband was needed, and one that wouldn&apos;t mind Mary having &quot;a bun in the oven.&quot; &nbsp;The young men of the area were not likely to go along with such a thing . . . but . . . here was old Joseph, a widower, without much prospects, who would like to get a young wife, no matter the circumstances.

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