catholic-medievalist-deactivate:
The best argument for the perpetual virginity of Mary is that she gave birth to God. This is untouchable holiness. Any man of honor would know this instinctively and immediately.
Y’all protestants need to start showing St Joseph more respect for being the incredible holy man that he is
Great. Great. Now where does it say that Mary was perpetually a virgin in the New Testament? And why can’t an ordinary woman give birth to God?
I really don’t follow the Catholic argument here. Mary, by the Holy Spirit, gave birth to Jesus, so she’s somehow so holy that she and Joseph never consecrated their marriage?
This, despite the fact that Matthew explicitly names Jesus’s half-brothers and mentions that He had half-sisters as well?
And despite the fact that sex is a good and right thing for any married man and woman to do, something that God created for the covenant of marriage and saw was good?
For the last time Jesus was an only child of Mary. She remained a perpetual virgin throughout her marriage to St. Joseph.
Someone give me one good reason why St. Joseph, knowing that her Child is God, and that she is the spouse of the Holy Spirit, would dare touch her in front of Jesus, who is all-knowing God.
A good reason? Because she was his wife. Mary conceived by the holy spirit, but we aren’t told she was married to them. If Joseph didn’t have sex with Mary, they wouldn’t be married. so my question is why you call it her “marriage” to st. Joseph if it was never consummated?
In sorry are you under the impression that married couples must have sex to be actually married because that’s not only incorrect it’s gross.
I was actually arguing from the Catholic concept of annulment, though on further research it appears more complex than I thought. though I dunno why you’d call it gross.
Because it implies that married couples are required to have sex and that’s gross.
Doesn’t Matthew 1: 24-25 outright blow that theory away?
“And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took as his wife, and kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.”
And these verses too:
- Mark 6:2-3, “And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands? “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?”
- John 2:12, “After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and there they stayed a few days.”
Also, doesn’t this put virginity on a pedestal and reinforce the idea that virgins are somehow purer than the rest of people? Which supports the notion that sex is “dirty” and not a beautiful thing created by God Himself?