<@Anon-e-moose> #84521
(Okay I didn’t save my password, so starting over)
Updated. What I should have said was that was some pervert thought about the virgin birth. It wouldn’t be a virgin birth if sex was involved.
Jewish girls could married at 12. However that doesn’t prove that most married around 12-14 (and more likely 12-18). Well at least not the Jewish girls living in ancient Israel/Palestine. Most of them married around 15-20 (I hope she was like 18-20) to a man who is 30.(see source from my previous comment above). And we can’t really call someone a pedo when Mary’s age isn’t known and base on guesses. Yes educate guesses, but still guesses. Not to mention according to Christian belief it wasn’t done in a sexual manner, but it was done in a supernatural way.
And while I’m at it. Since that you mention the Holy Spirit. There’s this thing how early Christians and Jews believe that the Holy Spirit is female. John said himself state that he saw the Holy Spirit coming down in bodily form like a dove. According to the Jewish encyclopedia, dove is smilie for female beauty. Weird since that the Holy Spirit got Mary pregnant. But if it was done with divine powers, I don’t see why one needs to be a dude if they can impregnated someone by snapping their fingers. Or either that it was done with tech https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4909-virgin-birth-mammal-rewrites-rules-of-biology/amp/
The Bible never describe anything sexual about Mary conceiving since that the Bible in any version use comes upon you as anything sexual.
https://www.cbeinternational.org/resource/article/priscilla-papers-academic-journal/feminine-imagery-god-hebrew-bible
https://earstohear.substack.com/p/holy-spirit-the-feminine-being-of?utm_source=url&s=r
Ancient Jewish Epitaphs: An Introductory Survey of a Millennium of Jewish Funerary Epigraphy (300 BCE-700 CE) by Pieter Willem van der Horst Pg 104