To butcher a line from Dogma: believing in a virgin birth is faith, believing a married couple never got it on is plain guillability
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Um, Bex, that's glib and all, but I mean, we're being heterodox hypothetical Christians here and... what if MAry and Joseph were ace?
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This is true, yes, apologies for that. I mostly don't buy it b/c the Bible had a passage about Jesus' siblings visiting him at some point.
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Replying to @remembrancermx @BootlegGirl and
Though I suppose we could assume they're step siblings but Joseph isn't spoken of as remarrying?
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Yeah Joseph being old and having possible previous kids is all tradition, not in the Bible
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Jesus' entire life is sort of glossed over up to his ministry isn't it?
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Yeah the Gospels aren't biographies of him just collections of his sermons and miracles
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Mark, the oldest extant Gospel and the closest to the original Q text, starts with Jesus meeting John the Baptist and becoming his successor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Jesus' backstory with the Nativity and whatnot was clearly added later and was added for the purpose of arguing he fulfilled prophecy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And the two given backstories contradict each other -- the modern Nativity is literally just stitching one after the other to make one story
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"FIRST the thing with the stable and no room at the inn happened, THEN the thing with the Magi and Slaughter of the Innocents"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
"Why Matthew would only mention one and Luke the other is a mystery given they both happened at the same time and were very dramatic"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And in all of the original Q text material the Bethlehem origin is never mentioned and Jesus is consistently said to be from Nazereth
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