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I'm no theologian but one of the best explanations I was given for Mary remaining ever-Virgin is because she carried the Lord as did the Ark in the days of Moses. Mary is the Ark of the the "New" Covenant that was promised. In the OT God placed a Cherub to guard the entrance to the passageway (just as He placed one at the entrance of the garden earlier on (Gen. 3:24)) to prevent man from entering.

Calvin, like Luther and Zwingli taught the perpetual virginity of Mary. http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ460.HTM

To Catholics like me, saying that Mary did not remain a virgin is tantamount to saying that she was not the Ark of the New Covenant and that Jesus was just a mere man.

When I read what the OT has to say about the original ark, I am confident that God would not have dealt with the New Ark any differently.

Well .. there is no scripture to support your "theory" about Mary. Mary had to be a representation of MANKIND or redemption was invalid; it's that simple!

By subscribing special privileges to her like constant virginity (while she was having intercourse and children with her husband like a normal wife) is absurd; or by subscribing sinlessness to her and saying she was the first Christian - actually exhaults her above Jesus. Jesus was sinless because of the blood of God in his veins, not because of Mary's flesh. Paul taught us that Jesus was "the firstborn from the dead", making Jesus the "first Christian".

God cautioned us to "rightly divide the Word of God".

You can choose to believe whatever you want, but there just is no correlation between Mary being a virgin when Jesus was born and God placing a Cherub to guard the entrance to Eden .. that is the most astouding thing I have ever heard.

One thing is for sure, I could never accept what the Catholics or the Calvinists teach. It just doesn't line up with the Word of God.