A Textual Challenge to the “Mary and Joseph Had Later Relations” Position

[David in NJ]

What?

The folks adding things here are those trying to interpret away what the plain text demonstrates - Mary was baffled at Gabriel's words that she "will conceive" because she "does not know man," which only makes sense as a response if she had no expectation of "knowing man" in the future. No one's managed to respond to Moonwood's basic, repeated question on this point without reading into the text what is not there, or otherwise distorting it.

As the old saying goes, don't throw stones when you're in a glass house.

i hope your kidding!!!

Because you, again, just added to the very words of GOD

Quickly turn your heart back to the LORD Jesus Christ = Proverbs 30:5-6

 

[BillTaylor]

So, you're not going to answer my question:

How am I reading Mary never consummated the marriage into Luke's narrative?

Nor address my argument for why Jesus's adelphoi weren't His siblings in this thread: Jesus’s Adelphoi: Scripture and Early Christian Testimony?

Ok then.

Mary's other sons and her daughters will be Earthli Blood Kin.

 

[Moonwood]

Mary's other sons and her daughters will be Earthli Blood Kin.

That response doesn't explain how I'm reading Mary never consummated the marriage into Luke's narrative, nor address my argument for why Jesus's adelphoi weren't His siblings in this thread: Jesus’s Adelphoi: Scripture and Early Christian Testimony.