While the Bible does not state Mary’s exact age, most historians and biblical scholars agree on a likely range based on cultural context.
Mary was most likely between 12 and 16 years old when Jesus was born.
This estimate comes from:
Jewish marriage customs of the first century
The typical age of betrothal for girls
The timeline between engagement and childbirth
In that culture, girls were often engaged shortly after puberty and married soon after. Since Mary was already betrothed when the angel Gabriel appeared, it strongly supports the idea that she was in her early teens.
That’s okay, many old languages use their word for “animal” only for terrestrial vertebrates or even only for terrestrial mammals. Fish, birds and sea creatures wouldn’t register as animals in most of them.
And somehow brought koalas and kangaroos back to Australia and ONLY to Australia… SOMEHOW the biological world looks as if it evolved in place instead of migrating from a single boat.
But we should steelman religious arguments and then destroy them on the merits, because they have not one argument that holds water even when we steelman them.
He allegedly killed everything on the planet except for two of each creature, amongst a slew of other murders.
Later he became his own dad* and had exceptionally buoyant feet, though, so swings and roundabouts as the Brits say 🤷🏻
*through his spirit raping a 12-16yo virgin
Is that how young Mary canonically was. Yeah the people who wrote the Bible were definitely something weren’t they.
It’s never explicitly specified but:
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Don’t ask about the fish, birds, and sea creatures though. They did just fine, but they don’t count for some reason.
That’s okay, many old languages use their word for “animal” only for terrestrial vertebrates or even only for terrestrial mammals. Fish, birds and sea creatures wouldn’t register as animals in most of them.
Ohhhh ok got it. They just had millions of land animals on the made up boat.
And somehow brought koalas and kangaroos back to Australia and ONLY to Australia… SOMEHOW the biological world looks as if it evolved in place instead of migrating from a single boat.
But we should steelman religious arguments and then destroy them on the merits, because they have not one argument that holds water even when we steelman them.