Born Again Christians

Some facts on Mary!
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Q: Was Mary always a Virgin?

A: No!

Matthew 13:55-56 - "Is this not the carpenter's son?  Is not His mother
called Mary?  And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?  And His
sisters, are they not all with us?  Where then did this Man get all these
things?"

Mary was a virgin until after the birth of Christ.  After the birth of
Christ she fulfilled her responsibilities as a wife to Joseph and they had
many children of whom are mentioned in the verse quoted above.

Q: Was Mary sinless?

A: No!

Luke 1:47 - And my spirit has rejoiced in God my SAVIOUR.

Mary sang a song of praise to God in which she states in the verse above
that God was her savior.  Only sinners need a savior.  Angels do not
call God their Savior as they have not sinned so they do not know God as
their Savior.  Only man can know God in that light.

These two verses show that Mary had sex with her husband Joseph and had
children after the birth of Christ and that she as a sinner needed
salvation just like the rest of us.  The teaching of Mary being immaculate
is a false teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and is only one in a long
line of false teaching that emulates from this false representative of
Christ.

Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Matthew 13:56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this [man] all these things?

Psalm 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

Galatians 1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called:

Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.

H8198 shiphchah maid, maid-servant, slavegirl

Luke 1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

G1399 doulē a female slave, bondmaid, handmaid

It is interesting how a woman who calls herself a slave is supposedly going to get favors done or be a mediator when she is listed last in the book of Acts and then nothing else is said about her in the Bible to have the kind of role she has in Catholicism but that is not the Mary of the Bible.

Luke 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, [thou that art] highly favoured, the Lord [is] with thee: blessed [art] thou among women.

It says "blessed art thou AMONG women" and not "ABOVE" women.

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