I can confirm this belief is correct. The fundamentalists I knew rejected it because no woman could be that pure
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("Correct" as in Catholic Doctrine. My Mom is ex-Catholic, my dad is ex-fundamentalist Baptist)
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Which as a Jew is Questionable, because Jewish ethics have always placed a high value on family & marriage.
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While, they are not modern or medieval Jews, they're still in the beginning days of Rabbinical Judaism. Where sex in marriage is a mitzvah.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Bitchpuddingpie and
Yeshuah himself would have been a rabbi in good standing, which makes it likely he was married.
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Right. The purity of no-sex is... not Jewish. It's Greek via Greek philosophers who thought women were gross and were into homosexuality
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It's worth pointing out that the prophecy of Isaiah Christians appropriated as a proof text about virgin birth didn't mean that in his time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Isaiah would've understood that Hebrew term just to mean "a young woman with no children"
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I.e. he's just talking about the birth of a firstborn son as a leader, which Christians twisted out of context to make more supernatural
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Just like Christian tradition takes poetic denunciations of foreign kings and makes it into stories about actual fallen angels
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