Talk:Mary (Mother of Jesus)

Name of Article
I don't like the use of the possessive with family members. It is especially awkward when you have to decide whether to use 'apostrophe s' after the final s in a name. With so many names ending that way, and either  Jesus's or Jesus' passing grammatically, wouldn't it be better to use "Mother of Jesus" (or as in another Mary, "Mother of Mark")?

SouthWriter (talk) 20:40, December 18, 2015 (UTC)

Re:Superdadsuper
I am not opposed to this. I do not think this is something that will require formal meeting or community proposal. If we do it to this article, it will need to be done to all other current articles and be done using the possesive "of" to link the familial position in conjuction to whom. I will need to investigate how to do this properly in the bot. Wait to rename this article so I can do it all at once with the bot

In Christ,

Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat

RE:
This would be something very technically complex to do with a bot, and again we will have to do this manually. There are only 23 articles that need this done, and really it just requires the renames and then making sure the redirect is correct. Its lower on my priority list but I will do it sometime soon (after the other things have progress) using the bot

In Christ,

Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat

Change the Name of the Article
Virgin Mary is a way much better name than Mary (Mother of Jesus), Mary (Mother of Jesus) is too long TheHighWorldofficial (talk) 01:30, June 7, 2019 (UTC)

Re: She was Not a Virgin Forever
The reason the article is not "Virgin Mary" or "Mary (Virgin)" is that the perpetual virginity of Mary is not a biblical concept. Matt 1:25 explicitly states that Joseph did not "know" her until after Jesus was born (in the context it mentions how Joseph continued to take Mary as his wife, but they did not consumate it until after Jesus birth). Virgin Mary is a title ascribed by the Catholic church. While that is accurate for part of her life, it does not remain accurate for the entirety of her life. The "Mother of Jesus" is meant to help distinguish her from the many other Mary's- each Mary has a paranethical or other epithet (that is used specifically in Scripture or very well known). We are not a Catholic site, we are a broader Christian site (Evangelical if you want to label), though Catholics are welcome to edit- since they are Christians; using the name "Virgin Mary" may also mark us being a Catholic organization.

In Christ, Superdadsuper, Sr. Content and Community Manager (Bible Wiki) 03:06, June 7, 2019 (UTC)