December 25, 2008
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Merry Christmas
Let me be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.
Matthew 1:23 tells us: “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.”
Do you think Mary was a virgin?
Comments (126)
I hope not – that would suck.
all the work and no play…
I haven’t been first in a year – its a christmas miracle.
Yes, and a very Merry Christmas to you Dan
@writingsongsforBlair - HAHAH Omg good one!
If she was, that mean Jesus popped her cherry comin’ out..and that’s some twisted shit right there.
Nope.
Merry Xmas to ya !!!
Virgin you say.. hmm I mean lol I dont want coal in my stocking so Ill tell you my thoughts on that after xmas lol..
Merry Christmas!
And of course, because the Bible is all truth and no liez.
@writingsongsforBlair - hehehe your fun!
yes
Merry Christmas to you Dan too!
Yup! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Merry Christmas.
She was a virgin.
Yes. For those who believe in God, it’s no harder to believe in the immaculate conception than any other miracle.
yep!
Of course I do! Merry Christmas, Dan! =)
She was a virgin at the time, but then she made a bunch of babies with Joseph.
Yes… until after Jesus was born.. that would just suck for Joseph and Mary if she were a virgin her entire life.
She had to be a virgin.
Nope!
She was
Merry Christmas to you too.
What a follow up question!
Nope.
You’d have to be pretty naive to think a married couple stayed virgins for very long
@saintvi - I agree…
there was a House episode where he told this girl that cheated on her fiance that she basically got pregnant like this and they were really religious. It was funny.
Merry Christmas, Dan.
@Drakonskyr - Years of Christian living and I never thought of that.
Yeeps.
Not sure if she was a virgin or not but jesus was black
Because I would know…
Merry Christmas, and yes Dan.
Merry Christmas Dan!
And heck yes I do.
No.
Yes, I do:) Happy Christmas!
Do you believe Mithra’s mom was a virgin? After all, thats where they stole the story of Jesus from.
happy christmas! …and yes, she was.
A virgin as in never having sexual intercourse, no. Perhaps describing Mary as a virgin was meant to have a different meaning.
Christianity is not the first religion to have virgin births and saviors. Christianity has Pagan DNA. Ancient Egyptian God Horus was born of the virgin Goddess Isis. Krishna was born of the virgin Devaki. Greek God Dionysus was born of the virgin Semele and he went on to become a savior. Buddha was born of a virgin. Norse Goddess Frigga was impregnated by the God Odin and bore Balder, the healer and savior of mankind. I guess Mary or Jesus wasn’t so special afterall.
I’m sure as hell NOT a virgin O.o oh wait, its the OTHER mary! haha Happy Holidays! I’m sick, bundled up in my room watching the new DVDs I bought. w00t!
The verse you quoted says she was a virgin, so, yes I think she was a virgin.
merry christmas
@Drakonskyr - That comment made my day.
@EarthsAzureLight - Not quite sure if you realize this or not, but, they weren’t actually married when Mary became pregnant. They were betrothed (engaged, with a legally binding oath to marry) but not yet married, that is why she was still a virgin.
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - I told a group of junior high youth group kids once that Jesus wasn’t white with blonde hair and blue eyes and you’d swear I told them the world was coming to an end. In fact a few of them “corrected me” and told me that Jesus was exactly that, they knew because they saw paintings and pictures!
@Tom@revelife - lol crazy what the media can make people believe huh
Well, does God lie?
Christianity would not be possible if Jesus had had a natural conception.
So yes, Mary was a virgin when He was conceived.
Yes she was, until she gave birth. Then she and Joseph had kids together.
She was a virgin when she conceived Christ, and that’s what matters.
well.. she was married.. and back in thoes days you were not fully married till ya did it soooooooOOoooo.. no.
Happy holidays hun!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Even though it’s still not Christmas in my time zone.
Yupp
Merry Christmas
Have a merry christmas, Dan, and a happy and safe holiday.
I miss you! <3
Depends. She wasn’t a virgin for her whole life.
hello Dan, well,I would say she was when she had the baby Jesus but who knows what she did after that
yes. no if and or buts about it.
She was very young, so …….. yes I think she was…..
yes
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!
Merry Christmas! =]
Merry X-MAS to you, too. As for the Virgin Mary, if the bible says it, it must be true.
Immaculate conception? I believe it. Merry Christmas
Human parthenogenesis!
Yes.
Yes sir, she was, and praise God for it. Merry Christmas!
Ho Ho Hoooooo Merrrry Christmassssss THEOLOGIAN. =)
Merry Christmas!
The Bible says she was a virgin, therefore she was until after Jesus was born.
No, actually the Jews wanted to end the Roman occupation of their land, so Christianity was started as a subversive political movement. It got out of hand years after his death and infected the world much like our biggest sexually transmitted diseases.
Jesus is a lot like local leaders in Iraq trying to end the occupation.
Mary had sex, and I bet she enjoyed it, if that was even her name.
@catanddogdoctor - Ooooh! I would have thought Mary was hella hot then!
NOT TOO OLD!
How should I know???? I was not there when she gave birth. Merry X-Mas to you too Dan.
Merry Christmas Dan. May you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year. May The Lord bless and guide you this coming year
To you and yours a very merry and joyous christmas
I think she came up with the best excuse for getting knocked up ever. Definitely most original. And she got famous off it.
Christmas is over now, in Australia. What a marvellous day.
No, and Merry Christmas!
If she were a virgin before giving birth to Christ I’m positive she wouldn’t be after. I’m sure Joseph wanted to get his groove on, I mean come on, he’s the step dad, his sole purpose is to boink your mom.
no, but I’m not a believing Christian
but I actually thought about it todqay and it struck me:
even the son of God needed an earthly, human mother.
So I guess mothers are important
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Mary was and is blessed among women, she was a virgin until 9 months before she gave birth to Jesus’ younger brother. She was the only person present at both His birth and His death (and His resurrection & ascension, although that’s not mentioned in Scripture, I just think it happened that way). An amazing woman.
Since virgin meant “unmarried” woman, I have no doubt that was true. Meanings of words often change through the years, and that is one that did.
I was there hours ago… so you’re like second at least… I don’t even know if I’m really first… but who cares.
Happy Christmas pants… hope you have a nice day my man
@EarthsAzureLight - believe it or not some people do have self control, especially if you’re told that you’re carrying Jesus Christ. and even before mary and joseph found out she was expecting, with their beliefs and faith, they wouldn’t have been having sex. they had a year of courtship, which is technically marriage but they’re not living together, then they have the official marriage ceremony. these people took their faith and beliefs seriously. i believe she was a virgin.
Merry Christmas Dan. Hope you and yours have a great one. Don’t drink and drive. LOL
no.
Yes, and not just “out of the blue” – the prophecies foretold that a virgin would conceive, hundreds of years before Jesus was born. She and Joseph weren’t married yet, they were “betrothed” (a legally binding engagement), and Joseph knew that she wasn’t pregnant with his child, because it was impossible – they had never “known” each other that way. That happened after Jesus’ birth, and after they were married. Also, God told Joseph in a dream that Mary was with child, and that the child was “of God”, and that he should not be afraid to take Mary as his wife. I believe the Bible.
I think so but I do have my doubts.
Merry Christmas Dan.
And to answer your question. Yes I believe Mary was a virgin before Jesus was born.
Merry Christmas!!!!!
Merry Christmas
@mkenyon719 - was gonna mention that one. i told my boyfriend about this show and he was like… .uhhh until i told him she cheated and he goes on saying “i thought so.”
If she wasn’t fooling around, there is another way to have a virgin birth. Human pathogenesis. Wiki it, for those that don’t know what it is.
I don’t know. But it is medically and biologically possible to give a virgin birth without any supernatural occurance.
Yes, before she had jesus. But not after. She had 3 more kids.
She’d have to be, or Jesus Christ isn’t Jesus Christ, he’s just some dude. A very nice dude. But a very nice dude can’t save us from our sins.
And yes, Mary is a virgin.
@la_faerie_joyeuse - Yeah? When has that ever happened?
I hate it when religion intrudes on what could be a nice secular holiday.
I dont know
@BeKa28 - Well, there is the modern practice of IVF, in which eggs and sperm are extracted, joined in-vitro, and then the resulting embryos are implanted into a woman’s uterus. Virgin birth! (Of course, usually women who will be carrying a fetus HAVE had sex before – either they were trying to get pregnant and failed, or they simply are not virgins. But there’s no reason the procedure couldn’t be performed on a virgin.)
Of course, they didn’t have that 2000+ years ago. But they did have individuals with naturally occurring abnormalities known as hermaphrodites, which had both ovaries and testes. Under the right conditions, such a person could literally fertilize her(?) own eggs. Voila, virgin birth!
Alternately, a woman could insert fresh semen into her vagina, which could result in a virgin birth.
@AmeriKen - No, but the bible wasn’t written by God.
Yes..
I certainly hope so.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Dan!
whether she was or not, i dont think it even matters.
I think perhaps Mary was a virgin, but not in the sense many take it.
I think when it was said that a virgin would bring forth a divine child, it was more to imply that Mary wasn’t pregnant before her vision and therefore her pregnancy was the result of the prophecy… Not a run-of-the-mill pregnancy. But to say that a Jewish husband and wife did not consummate — well, that’s just difficult to believe.
Mary is a virgin, and that is a beautiful, beautiful thing!
Nope.
No, and if anyone tells you any different they are lying. In order to have a baby she must receive a sperm from male. Maybe, she felt shame of herself for loosing her virginity before marriage. So, she lie to cover up this incidence.
Doesn’t the Bible mention Jesus’ older siblings? That would make her not a virgin. Also, there is speculation that she was actually raped by a Roman soldier-quite common at that time. That would make Jesus half Italian. So how did the Vatican end up in Rome???
Maybe Artificial Insemenation existed back then.
But, no, actually….I don’t think Mary was a virgin.
Belief that Mary was a virgin at the time of Christ’s birth has always been a difficult position in discussions with non-believers. Logically, it makes no sense to most people outside the church and even some within the church have doubts, in my experience. Sometimes a Christian must rely on faith. This is one of those times.
Yes she is a virgin…
yes! creepy dan! *tsk…*
@rjjrdq – If Jesus had older siblings, they could have been half-siblings from Josephs side. Back then, women married when they were young and could bring forth many children. She most probably was between the ages of 12-15. Joseph would have been an older man and he would have been widowed. He most probably was in his 20′-30′s. Plus, in the bible, they did not consumate their marriage until after Jesus was born.
@findingliberty – They did have physicians back then. She had made the claim that she was a virgin. To be married, she had to be for she was young and to have the blessings from both sides of the family. She was checked to see if her hyman was intact. It was intact.
I am not sure about if Artificial insimination was around back then, but if you have seen the episode of SCRUBS where J.D got Kim pregnant….he gives a good rendition of how he got her pregnant. It is like artificial insimination, but not. It is possible because it does happen all the time. Especially with teens who think that just to get pregnant, they have to actually have intercourse. Back then, they did not completely understand biology and it is possible that she and another guy had the same idea back then that you could not get pregnant unless there was penetration. As long as one little guy made it to the egg when she was ovulating…then a pregnancy happened. The only other way for the hyman not to be broken….the father had to be reeeaaallly small…maybe still young enough not to have fully matured so a young teen.
I do not like to read the bible with out pairing it with the other works such as the Koran and the other books of faith that most Christian’s do not read and the books that were purposefully omiited
If the New Testament AND the Koran agree, that seems real enough for me.
Also, SCIENTIFICLY, there has been credible evidence of lifeforms procreating asexually even if they tend to not normally do so. (I was watching the History Channel and Biography channel while making Chistmas cookies!)
Also, in regards to Roman soldier referred to as Panthera (awesome band, by the way) it was often determined that it was inconclusive as to whether or not that was true that Mary was “raped”. (which could also mean she had an elicit affair with a Roman soldier)
However, it had been determined that it is likely that the time this odd little story was written (I think it was the 2nd century AD) that there was a rift between Christians and Jews as to whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.
Yes.
Umm. Yeah.
Definitely
Yes,of course,that is what the bible says and what the bible says is true…:)
Yes… until after Jesus was born
Yes.
Certainly. In fact, virgin birth DOES occur in nature. However, the product of this has to be female. This is what made Jesus’ advent a miracle.
BTW: In answer to a previous remark, the Bible states clearly that Joseph was reluctant to consummate his marriage to Mary upon hearing that she was carrying the Holy Child. An angel had to assure him that it was not only allowed, but necessary. In fact, it’s likely that Jesus had a host of younger siblings, to include the Apostle James.
It’s interesting to speculate as to how many people today, after 2,000 years, might be direct descendants of Joseph and Mary… and therefore of Jesus’ indirect lineage.
No. No she wasn’t.
Yes
Yes, she was a virgin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqitNsqXsUs
Ron Wyatt explains a blood sample he discovered several years before he died.
Merry christmas
Mary was NOT a virgin, it’s physically impossible to become pregnant without implantation of sperm; from intercourse or otherwise (and let’s be honest here, there was no “otherwise” back then.)
If she told Joseph and angel visited her, that’s code for, “I cheated on you cause you won’t put out, but I’m going to lie and play on your faith.”
all scripture needz to be taken with several grainz of salt cleary she wuz pregnant clearly she deliverd a healthy child clearly she wuznt a virgin
Since the Bible is the infallible Word of God, and you took that quote directly out of it, then yes, she was definitely a virgin. I feel badly for all the ppl who doubt this. Pretty sad not to believe in God’s Word.
She was when she became pregnant with Jesus. I doubt she was after she and Joseph were married.
I believe Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived. I’m not sure about perpetual virginity, though.
According to Christians she was, but then wouldn’t her hymen break when she gave birth? Owwwwww!!!!