How Old was Virgin Mary when Married Joseph?

Melton wrote:

I agree that Mary was probably around twelve to fourteen years old. This was the normal age for girls to be married. But men normally would marry around 18 to early twenties.
The Bible does not give their ages. So it is impossible to know for sure how old they were.
I would like to add that according to the Bible, Jesus had brothers and sisters. It is very rare that a man of ninety could father any children at all. Abraham was the only example of a man of that age ever fathering a child, and that was a miracle.

Dany wrote:

Jesus didn't have a brothers or sisters.
To understand this point you should know that the Syriac language dsoens't contain a huge number of words, for this reason everyone from your family is called a brother or sister...
Please thibk about the definition of cousin in english and tell me exactly from wich side is related, father or mother or aunty or uncle..
Thank you

Dany wrote:

Jesus didn't have a brothers or sisters.

jmb777 wrote:

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He didn't? Well, that's very strange. The Bible says he did, and multiple times!
I wonder why someone would be particularly interested in arguing this point. Does it really matter? Does your salvation hinge on it? If it does, there's a problem. Salvation is founded on one thing and that is the shed blood of Christ, not on who His mother was.
While we're on the subject, Mary's first name is not "Virgin". She is Mary, a special woman chosen for a special task, who needed salvation just as badly as the rest of us. Making more of her than that is akin to idolatry.

Melton wrote:

This thread was not started by me. I was responding to Submitter. Submitter's original postings have been deleted.

americanapoleon wrote:

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why? were they flagged

Melton wrote:

<quoted text>I dont know. I have noticed that alot of threads started by Submitter are deleted. I mean his opening posts are deleted. I think he is violating copywrite laws.

Mr_Tim wrote:

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I agree with your comment here, yet I wonder if you are Mormon. Are you?

jmb777 wrote:

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LOL. You think I'm Mormon? Where did you get that idea?:)
And Submitter has been kicked out of Topix? Ahh, I will miss him.:/

Mr_Tim wrote:

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I was just joking. It is too bad that submitter has been ousted, but talking to him was like teaching rocket science in Chinese to a fourth grader from Arkansas.

Bob White wrote:

Your simplistic understanding of whether or not Jesus had brothers is detrimental to constructive debate. Languages change just as sad has a completely different meaning now than it did a couple a hundred years ago, brothers and brethren did not just refer to full brothers in the language that the bible was written in. I ask you this question without tradition and context how do we know what should be in the bible in the first place.

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Bob White wrote:

Your simplistic understanding of whether or not Jesus had brothers is detrimental to constructive debate. Languages change just as sad has a completely different meaning now than it did a couple a hundred years ago, brothers and brethren did not just refer to full brothers in the language that the bible was written in. I ask you this question without tradition and context how do we know what should be in the bible in the first place.

Bob White wrote:

Your simplistic understanding of whether or not Jesus had brothers is detrimental to constructive debate. Languages change just as sad has a completely different meaning now than it did a couple a hundred years ago, brothers and brethren did not just refer to full brothers in the language that the bible was written in. I ask you this question without tradition and context how do we know what should be in the bible in the first place.