The earliest evidence for the teaching that Mary was a perpetual virgin occurs in the writings of the early church father Jerome1 who was born in A.D. 347 and died about A.D. 419. Prior to Jerome there is no evidence that the early church taught anything other than the scriptural record – that Jesus had siblings: flesh and blood brothers and sisters."
Huston, we have a problem. Jerome1 declared that Mary was a perpetual virgin. Please tell us how can we respond to that?
