Dear Paul, I thank you for your kind post and I understand what you're saying, at least I think I do. I guess to be honest I posted a little off topic b/c I feel that the issue of Mary's virginity is very obvious and it's rather stupid to question it, the Bible clearly teaches that Mary was a virgin. The Bible also teaches that Christ is 100 percent God and 100 percent man, this I have no trouble with, its even more clear that He lived life and had a physical form and after the resurrection He ascended into Heaven. What I was trying to say is probably better expressed in that I do not believe that Mary created God, but rather that it was God who used one of His creations (mary) to birth His son and that this does not make Mary greater than God as some are known to say. Heaven forbid it that I should ever say something so heretical as that Jesus is not God, that is against all that I know and believe.<br> In addition, about my other statement, I'm sorry if I offended you, I do not mean to say something out of turn, but I often feel free and feel the necessity to deal with things in as forward a manner as possible. Some things one is forced to learn by being an openly Christian public high school student, did I want to know, no, do I know, yes, and I don't deny that. I fully understand your discomfort about sexuality, it's a topic of a rather taboo nature to most Christians, but to me it would seem that I have liberty and that the Bible does deal with sex, and going to college now it's not as though I don't have to have a knowledgeable standard, nevertheless, I apologize and (while making no promises) I will try to refrain from such things if they are unnecessary, for your sake. I agree, such statements are often boastful and are often lude and crude and are most certainly not the good ground for a doctrinal statement.<br><br><br>Dear Carlos, I appreciate your post as well, I wasn't able to get into the debate and hear it, and as I said to Paul, I wish I'd been more on topic, but I felt rather passionette about the subject. I find the idea of someone basing their beliefs on dogma and not upon the Bible to be rather uninformed and ignorant. And if one will say that they are a Christian and will base their beliefs on the Bible then they must understand that the Bible is clear about the Virgin birth and that Mary had kids after she had Jesus.<br><br>I thank you both for your post, bless you.<br><br>-Brother Luke<br>