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2023-06-02 02:03:31
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Jordan Eskovitz on Nostr: With respect, the argument made in the link you posted is that virginity is crucial ...

With respect, the argument made in the link you posted is that virginity is crucial to her identity, but the Scriptural context is that the virginity of Mary was an essential aspect of Christ's birth as the God-man. The focus and emphasis of her virginity centers on Christ, not as a core identity marker of who Mary was.

It also compares her typologically to the Ark of the Covenant, saying "Mary, like the Ark, had been set apart from everything else in creation. She contained the presence of God within her, closed to everyone and everything else in this respect." If by "in this respect" the writer means "bearing the physically incarnate messiah, then sure. But all believers now contain the very presence of God. The ark, tabernacle, and temple were all covanental foreshadows of Christ's very people being his dwelling place. Her virginity, post resurrection, is of no spiritual advantage over any other believer in the new covenant.
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