If you can't convince your own family that's pretty bad isn't it.
2006-06-12 07:34:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Imagine growing up among brothers and sisters and leading a normal Jewish life. Then, when your big brother turns thirty, you witness him claiming to be the Messiah. I mean, he may have changed your diapers or chased you through the back yard. He's your sibling, for crying out loud. Now, after thirty years of knowing him, you're just going to swallow that he is the promised Messiah? You gotta admit that would be difficult, right? Thus, at Mark 3:21, we read that his relatives went to get him because"he has gone out of his mind" or so they thought.
2006-06-12 07:58:52 · answer #1 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Funny how you want it both ways. When the Bible depicts the truth of who Jesus claimed to be, you consider it "myth"...a later invention. When it honestly depicts the confusion his family has over understanding what His mission is, then THAT is believable (and somehow derogatory)? If a miracle happened in your life would you accept it as that? No, you'd probably write it off as "strange coincidence" or an "unexplained phenomena". Yes, they had doubts. Yes, they had misunderstandings of what the promised messiah would bring to this life. They didn't understand until Christ was raised from the dead. I guess that was enough to finally convince them and make them understand...
2006-06-12 15:09:30 · answer #2 · answered by Seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the Brothers? No Disciple? Yes! He had a right to question like you are now. Jesus had just been crucified and put in a tomb even though he told the disciples many times what would happen,they had little faith. They are human just like you.
2006-06-12 14:45:04 · answer #3 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. James, the Righteous, of course became a Temple elder; Mark [Gospel of] was actually John; and Jude [Epistle of] was also Judas [not Iscariot, but His brother]...
Initially, maybe so, since it is written that "A Prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house."
Peace be with you!
2006-06-12 14:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get that "Fact"
All of His family after His death/Resurrection believed and became members in the early Church.
(Jude) wrote a letter in the Bible.
2006-06-12 14:46:44 · answer #5 · answered by williamzo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard tha one before. Truth is noone is sure what they believed, or didnt, as that was never specifically mentioned in the Bible. Many in his hometown rejected him, that it does say,
2006-06-12 14:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋