'We often say that Mohammad was a pedophile, but wasn't the virgin Mary around 12 when she was impregnated'
You, not 'we' brought this equivalency between Mohammed's MHR pedophilia with a 9 yr old 'wife' and compared it to the Virgin birth of Jesus by coming up with a young age for Mary. You have said some inane things before, but even for an 18 yr old Deist from NYC this is a bit much for us cornshuckers in the sticks. You really need to retract this abominable statement.
'because the average lifespan was very short.'
Like Abraham's life?
I don't really believe that Abraham lived to be 900 years old. Do you?
The marriage was consumated when that 9 year old was 12.
Shall we look at the average lifespans of that time?
I'm waiting....
Could you assist in the determining of Mary's age when she became a mother?
Lauralee......no,Mary wasn't THAT young,when she had Jesus and there isn't any year given for her,ever,in the Bible. We know that she was of marriageable age,because she was betrothed the Joseph,when she became pregnant and the age of betrothal,for a Jewess of that time,was past the age of 13.
Mohamed wed that little girl when she was 6 and consummated the marriage when that little girl was 9.
Lauralee...it really would help,if you refrained from posting about things you don't know anything at all about.