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Well, I don't know what happened with you and your friend. Maybe they overreacted, you said something wrong, or both.

The Bible never said that they ever had a marital union. The Church has always taught she stayed a virgin. The Church from the very start, while there was still people alive that knew Mary, was teaching that she stayed a virgin. Therefore, the question really is, what reason is there to believe that she didn't stay a virgin?

The verse you refer to uses the word "until", but that that doesn't signify that Mary's virginity only remained for a certain time. Until doesn't always mean a limited amount of time.

ps 71(72):7 "In His days the righteous shall flourish, And abundance of peace, Until the moon is no more."

Does that mean that, we won't have peace after the end of days?

1 cor 15:25 "For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. "

Does that mean Christ won't rule after his enemies have been defeated?

ps 122(123):2 "Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to the Lord our God,
Until He has mercy on us."


Should we look towards God, only till gives us mercy, and then we can stop paying attention to him?

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