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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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
Even the concept of virgin birth is not universal in Christianity (as is the idea of Christ as a normal human, look at gnosticism)
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Replying to @ChaoticTabris @BootlegGirl and
Well yes, Christ as a normal human was explicitly a doctrinal rejection of the Gnostics
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The Gnostics were very much on the more Hellenistic, more anti-physical side of the fence though
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