Did Mary remain a perpetual virgin after Jesus was born? Or does the cumulative evidence of the New Testament indicate that Mary and Joseph later had a normal marriage and additional children?
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines this important—but nonessential—Christian debate using the same kind of cumulative reasoning jurors use in criminal trials.
No single passage has to settle the issue by itself. But what happens when we gather the entire body of evidence?
We investigate:
This episode does not question the virgin conception or virgin birth of Jesus. Those are clear biblical teachings. Instead, it asks whether the further claim of Mary's lifelong virginity is the best explanation of the biblical and historical evidence.
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