Read this and ANSWER !
"When 40 years of age, Joseph married a woman called Melcha or Escha by some, Salome by others; they lived forty-nine years together and had six children, two daughters and four sons, the youngest of whom was James (the Less, "the Lord's brother"). A year after his wife's death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age, Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph, and two years later the Annunciation took place."
The Catholic Encyclopaedia goes on to conclude "...retained the belief that St. Joseph was an old man at the time of marriage with the Mother of God." If there is no problem in a 90 year old man marrying the "Mother of God" who was 12-14 years old why do you raise objection towards the marriage of Aisha (RA) to the Prophet?
2007-04-12
04:40:02
·
17 answers
·
asked by
The Skeptic
4
in
Religion & Spirituality