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If Mary did maintain her virginity, how would Jesus's brothers and sisters be accounted?
Some believers claim that Jesus' brothers and sisters were Joseph's kids from a previous marriage.
The truth is -there is no biblical documentation that Jesus's siblings were from another marriage.
Some believers claim that Jesus' brothers and sisters were Joseph's kids from a previous marriage.
The truth is -there is no biblical documentation that Jesus's siblings were from another marriage.
You can try the Book of Jubilees or other texts that are not in the bible.
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It is not difficult to see how the Virgin Birth story might have arisen.
Early Christians were embarrassed that their leader was reputed to have been illegitimate. In the Hellenic world, where gods often impregnated human women, an obvious solution for any illegitimate putative leader was that a deity was the father. This had the dual advantage of explaining the illegitimacy and introducing an element of the divine. An Old Testament passage about a birth to a virgin apparently provided the key to the solution, or it would have done, had not the passage contained a critical mistranslation.
Many modern theologians accept that the story of the Virgin Birth is a myth designed to emphasis Mary's purity. It follows an established pattern, and may well have been based on existing stories like....
Despite all the evidence Mary still purports to retain her virginity, at least for the time being. The trick is done by tampering with the original texts, retaining known errors of translation, inserting suitable confirmatory material into sacred texts, rejecting the plain meaning of words in favour of contrived meanings, and glossing over contradictions and inconsistencies. All this is an open secret. No Church scholar of any standing denies it. But then none openly advertises it either, so the faithful masses remain in ignorance.
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