By definition, no.

Post #58,182 by wharris2 10/21/02 11:52:01 PM 10/21/02 11:54:15 PM Reply	By definition, no. By definition, the Virgin Mary's first child had to be Jesus. Unless you engage in some really remarkable theological mind-spinning. In which case the virgin birth goes out the window, all Catholicism has to be scrapped (I suppose there may be some sects that might accept it...) The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle Edited by wharris2 Oct. 21, 2002, 11:54:15 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #58,222 by boxley 10/22/02 9:05:02 AM Reply	how many wives did Joseph have? will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] "Therefore, by objective standards, the leading managers of the U.S. economy...are collectively, clinically insane." Lyndon LaRouche
Post #58,442 by tseliot 10/22/02 2:58:18 PM Reply	Unknown but since he doesnt stick around..? Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #58,576 by wharris2 10/22/02 7:38:22 PM Reply	Multiple wives? I don't suppose the Jewish faith prohibits multiple wives (we have the example of one of their heros, David) but the Biblical accounts don't say Joseph had any other wives before Mary. Not that I trust those accounts on much of anything. IMO, anything written thirty years after the death of a martyr by people promoting the faith must be called into question. And of course they would all portray Joseph, the father, as a guy who was pure as the driven snow. Joseph might have been a mighty philanderer so far as we know. (And, as far as we know, the "virgin birth" may very well have been due to some... shall we say... playing around between Joseph and Mary. If Clinton didn't know what "is" or "sex" meant, sure as hell Mary and Joseph didn't.)
Post #58,637 by boxley 10/22/02 10:48:18 PM Reply	widower? He is portayed as older My baby boy said the senior, just because there is snow on the roof doensnt mean the furnace is out. Bystander mutters must have been a lot of soot in that chimney thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] "Therefore, by objective standards, the leading managers of the U.S. economy...are collectively, clinically insane." Lyndon LaRouche
Post #59,431 by tseliot 10/25/02 1:04:52 PM Reply	So why didn't they? IMO, anything written thirty years after the death of a martyr by people promoting the faith must be called into question. Absolutely right. Somebody must have found out the "real truth" when it was written. Someone involved musta blabbed. So where's the document(s) exposing all this? Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10

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