Of course it is, but what is your understanding as to why the Holy See emphasized her particularly after and in response to the Reformation, and ever since?
Questions? Comments?
Questions? Comments?
Tradition has it that St Luke painted (or "wrote") the first icon, the Virgin Mary.
I can't even tell from the picture if the person holding the baby is a man or a woman.The guy on the left in that image looks like he is scolding the woman for breast feeding in public.
There is no such thing as "The virgin Mary"-Romans made it up.
EOT.DOA.RIP. CLOSED.
Given that the icon in the OP was painted in the mid 2nd-century, your question about something that would not occur for another fourteen-hundred years seems a bit out of place.Of course it is, but what is your understanding as to why the Holy See emphasized her particularly after and in response to the Reformation, and ever since?
Joseph.Who's the guy on the left?
Luke was a Gentile.He was a Jew... he would have never done such a thing.
You reject the Christian doctrine of the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ?Yep, Mary would never have passed a Jewish virginity test after giving birth to Jesus... and she would have been condemned under the Old Covenant if she never attempted to procreate with her husband afterwards.
You reject the Christian doctrine of the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ?