Was Mary a virgin when she had a baby?

Answer 1

When the Angel Gabrie (added: according to the Catholic, Eastern Orthadox, Greek Orthadox, Oreintal Orthadox and certain protestant faiths it was the archangel Gabriel), l came to visit Mary to tell her that she would conceive and bare a Son, She asked a very similar question:

"How can this be, since I know not a man?" (Luke 1:34) (the word 'know' means in plain language, sexual intercourse - Mary was thus asking how it could be she was going to be pregnant outside of the normal manner)

The angel answered:

"The Holy Spirit will come upon you, therefore the Child will be Holy, the Son of God. For nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:35)

Mary conceived Baby Jesus through the Holy Spirit and not through man, therefore the Child was the Son of God.

Also because GOD is all powerful, he can cause a virgin to conceive (aka give birth) to a child. This fact is recorded several times across The Bible in numerous verses. Isaiah 7:14 says "...Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel.1" 1= Immanuel means lit. GOD With Us

Answer 2

Roman Catholics, and a few other sects, believe that Mary never had sex, even though she did eventually marry Joseph.

Most Protestants believe that she was a virgin at the time she gave birth to Jesus, but after that adopted a normal sexual relationship with her husband.

Protestants point to references in scripture that talk about Jesus' brothers. Catholics say the same word could be used to refer to cousins. Either way, all Scripturally based beliefs which have not been tainted by modern attempts to "explain away" parts of the Bible agree- Mary gave birth to Jesus before she had sex, and that the birth of Christ was miraculous in nature.

Answer 3

Yes, Mary was a virgin because it was God who inserted Jesus into her.

Though no one believed her not even Joseph she still knew it was true. One night an angel came into Joseph's dream and explained to him that everything Mary told him was the truth.

Answer 4

Yes, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, was a perpetual virgin. We know this from the constant teaching of the Church, and from infallible teachings from various Popes. Thus she was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus, after she gave birth to Jesus, and through her entire life. This is a matter of faith, which is a gift of God, and, obviously, at this point in history can not be "proved". The fact that it is a matter of faith does not make it any less real.

from A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, by Dave Armstrong, Sophia Institute Press, © 2003

The Perpetual virginity of Mary

Pope Paul IV, in his Constitution, Cum Quorumdam Hominum, of 1555, expressed the constant teaching of the Catholic Church concerning both the virgin birth of Jesus Christ and the perpetual virginity of Mary:

We question and admonish all those who . . . have asserted, taught, and believed . . . that our Lord . . . was not conceived from the Holy Spirit according to the flesh in the womb of the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, but, as other men, from the see of Joseph . . . or that the same Blessed Virgin Mary is not truly the mother of God and did not retrain her virginity intact before the birth, in the birth, and perpetually after the birth. (In Neuner and Dupuis, The Christian Faith, 217. See CCC, pars 484-486, 496-498, 502-506, 510, 723 (for the virgin birth); pars 499-501, 507, 510, 721 (for the perpetual virginity of Mary))

The Greek word for brother in the New Testament is adelphos. The well-known Protestant linguistic reference An Expository Dictionary of the New Testament Wordsdefines it as follows:

1. Male children of the same parents . . .

2. Male descendants of the same parents, Acts 7:23, 26; Hebrews 7:5 . . .

4. People of the same nationality, Acts 3:17, 22; Romans 9:3 . . .

5. Any man, a neighbor, Luke 10:29; Matthew 5:22, 7:3;

6. Persons united by a common interest, Matthew 5:47;

7. Persons united by a common calling, Revelation 22:9;

8. Mankind, Matthew 25:40; Hebrews 2:17;

9. The disciples, and so, by implication, all believers, Matthew 28:10; John 20:17;

10. Believers, apart from sex, Matthew 23:8; Acts 1:15; Romans 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Revelation 19:10 (the word sisters is used of believers, only in 1 Timothy 5:2) . . . . (Vine, An Expository Dictionary of New testament Words,Vol. 1, 154-155.)

It Is evident, therefore, from the range of possible definitions of adelphos, that Jesus' "brothers" need not necessarily be siblings of Jesus on linguistic grounds, as many commentators, learned and unlearned, seem to assume uncritically. Be examining the use of adelphos and related words in Hebrew, and by comparing Scripture with Scripture ("exegesis"), one can determine that most sensible explanation of all the biblical date taken collectively. Many examples prove that adelphos has a very wide variety of meanings:

In the King James Version, Jacob is called the "brother" of his Uncle Laban (Gen. 29:15; 29:10). The same thing occurs with regard to Lot and Abraham (Gen. 14:14; 11:26-27). The Revised Standard Version uses "kinsman" at 29:15 and 14:14.

Use of brother or brethren for mere kinsmen: Deuteronomy 23:7; 2 Samuel 1:26; 1 Kings 9:14, 20:32; 2 Kings 10:13-14; Jeremiah 24:9; Amos 1:9).

In Luke 2:41-51, ... it is fairly obvious that Jesus is the only child....

Jesus himself uses brethren in the larger sense: Matthew 23:8, 23:1; 12:49-50.

The term Firstborn means pre-eminent and nowhere assumes later siblings, etc.

Answer 5

Christ Is Mary's Only Child. The "brothers & sisters" Of Our Lord were His cousins. Proof? St. James, the "brother of Our Lord," was identified in the Gospels as being the son of Alphaeaus.

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The continued virginity of Mary is an important doctrine in the Catholic church, but a lot of Christian churches believe that she was only a virgin until after the birth of Jesus Christ. Thereafter, she was married to Joseph and had other children.

Answer 6

Roman Catholic AnswerGod asked Joseph to be the wife of the Blessed Virgin Mary for several reasons, so that His Son could grow up in a family. Also, women, at that time, were practically chatel, and had few rights without a husband. Mary was bethrothed to Joseph when she concieved Our Blessed Lord, so that was no hint of scandal concerning the birth of Our Blessed Lord. She ended her life and went to heaven with her virginity still in tact.

Answer 7

Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus, as she had no relation with any man, not even Joseph. It was the work of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 8

he was conceived by the power of the holy spirit and born of the virgin Mary

Answer 9

She had no other children after Jesus. The 'brothers and sisters' of Jesus mentioned in the New Testament were close relatives but not siblings.

Answer 10

According to the gospels, Mary was a virgin until after Jesus was born. However, some modern theologians doubt the truth of this.