Only at the time of his birth. After that she had loads of children the traditional way. The Catholics believe she remained a virgin – doesn’t say much for Joseph.
At the time of Jesus’ purported life, what the Romans re-named “Syria Palaestina” was contemporaneously known as “Judea”. What with it being the ancestral homeland of the Jews for a millennium or so before then…
I’m not quite sure but wasn’t Mary immaculately conceived so she could be entirely free of sin, even Original one? That would make Jesus’s granny the oldest virgin in Judea.
Of course, like Mary, there’s no guarantee Granny Mary-mum stayed untouched after spawning the cleanly one.
As an aside, J & M, I am well qualified to judge and even the worst of sex is great and is way better than a bacon sarnie though a bacon sarnie is better than just about everything else.
Maybe altering the dogmas a little to allow for the inclusion of those two would let your flock become a little less grumpy, a little less belligerent and a touch calmer?
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No choice really. You can’t beat a couple of bacon sarnies after sex.
He couldn’t be the oldest virgin in Palestine, since his mother was a virgin…
Only at the time of his birth. After that she had loads of children the traditional way. The Catholics believe she remained a virgin – doesn’t say much for Joseph.
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At the time of Jesus’ purported life, what the Romans re-named “Syria Palaestina” was contemporaneously known as “Judea”. What with it being the ancestral homeland of the Jews for a millennium or so before then…
I’m not quite sure but wasn’t Mary immaculately conceived so she could be entirely free of sin, even Original one? That would make Jesus’s granny the oldest virgin in Judea.
Of course, like Mary, there’s no guarantee Granny Mary-mum stayed untouched after spawning the cleanly one.
As an aside, J & M, I am well qualified to judge and even the worst of sex is great and is way better than a bacon sarnie though a bacon sarnie is better than just about everything else.
Maybe altering the dogmas a little to allow for the inclusion of those two would let your flock become a little less grumpy, a little less belligerent and a touch calmer?