Perhaps he couldn't face the idea of Mary having a secret lover, and so would have believed anything other than accept this. Or was he just trying to do the right thing and look after the woman he loved after the other guy took off?
Not sure if I should post this in the history section, sorry if my question offends anyone.
2006-07-13 22:43:08 · 23 answers · asked by pantocool 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Your making assumptions here that no one could answer. The main assumption is that a conspiracy exists that Mary and/or the bible lies about the parentage of Jesus. If you are a christian it does not. However, lets say that Jesus did have a human father.
How or why would you think that Joseph himself might not have know the true story? Here are some possible senario's.
The immaculate conception was all a cover by Mary because she had a sexual accounter with a gentile - probably a Roman solder, and this would have been looked down harshly by many contempory Jews of Mary's time.
Mary was fooling around with another Jewish boy who did not want to take responsibility for his actions in getting Mary pregnant - so she made up the immaculate conception story out of some sort of psychosis possibly.
Perhaps Joseph actually is the father of Jesus - but since he realized that having sex with Mary prior to marriage would of been a great humiliation to both of them - they made up the story together or he did and actually convinced Mary to agree with it.
These are just a few alternatives to your question. Are we to presume that if Mary made the whole thing up Joseph would have been that dence to accept it? For what little is know about Joseph as a trained artisan and a good human father to Jesus it would not seem that Joseph was just anyone's fool right?
2006-07-13 23:00:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm a skeptic of the finished virgin tale yet when her concept replaced into not a divine one then Mary were raped with the help of a Roman guy, back then (and in some societies at present) being raped carried a particular social stigma that a lady would not want putting over her head. i don't think that Mary genuinely slept with anybody although. If the tale is real then the angel Gabriel known to Joseph as a thanks to substantiate the virgin concept tale after Mary informed him that 'line'.
2016-11-02 01:12:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same things still going on. Just look at River City (scottish people only) how come the infertile Billy is refusing to even wonder for a second how Joanne got pregnent?
People beleive what suits them the majority of the time, i'd imagine its always been like this, although as i wasn't around at the time i'd not be as bold as some and comment on things that they and i quite clearly have very little understanding of.
2006-07-14 00:03:25 · answer #3 · answered by Waltzing Wallace 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's just really faithful to that point of doing so. No offense taken. But the "other guy" is the Holy Spirit. Now....if the Holy Spirit impregnated your girlfriend, wouldnt you do the same thing?
And yea, Zulu9 is right. Immaculate Concepcion is about Mary being born, not Jesus.
2006-07-13 22:47:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no doubt in my mind, based on his susequent actions, that he believed her, but I wonder what the neighbours thought and said? "Holy Spirit indeed. Dirty little whore!"
In fact your question highlights what a terrible dilemma Mary must have been in on receiving the message from God. Imagine, a very young girl, probably from a simple and poor family, promised in marriage, from a bigotted society, something completely unheard of before. What was going through her mind at the time? Yet she said," Yes". The first person in the New Testament to do so to God.. It is no wonder that in some churches Mary is given special respect.
2006-07-15 06:23:10 · answer #5 · answered by katwishi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah mate, no offense taken at all...after all, your question is not quite 100%...Because Joseph did not just take St. mary's word, but he also heard it from the Angel himself who informed of what is to be,
Secondly, St Mary did not know any man. the term "know" in the ancient language context means "sexual relations", so st. mary remained a virgin throughout the whole thing. (Read the bible, you will see it)
I hope this clarification helps you...unless offcourse you are having a below-the-belt swipe at Christians through a cheap attempt to smear St. Mary's image.
But you seem like a genuine and respectable human being, I would not suspect you of doing such a lowly act...Please do not prove me wrong :-)
God Bless you.
2006-07-13 23:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by copticphoenix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People often confuse the meaning of the Immaculate Conception. It has nothing to do with her giving birth to Jesus. It refers to her being born without original sin. That is the Immaculate Conception. Well at least according to Christians.
Cheers.
2006-07-13 22:48:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man I think about that too! Like a more obvious reason for that idea would be, what would any afriad teenage girl do if she was cheating on her man and they were both virgins, she would be all like "omg i'm pregnant, but im a virgin" ... and since people back then still believed in magic lol they believed it! And a whole new scam swept on because it gave their lives more order!
And moses seeing that burning bush, he was on a high altitute, he could have been suffering altitude sickness (which makes you disoriented and you hallucinate...) a burning bush, a hallucination... maybe it was!
2006-07-13 22:47:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joseph didn't believe her at first..it was God who convinced him that she was telling the truth.
Yes, it is possible that someone would follow the course of events as you described. However, is it likely that Mary (who we are now posturing to be a cheat and a liar) raised a son who changed the world as we know it? Is it possible that she claimed to be giving birth to the prophesied Messiah, and then raised a son who perfectly fulfilled Old Testament prophecy - even to the point of his death and resurrection? Jesus did exactly that. Was Jesus was who He claimed to be...the Son of God? Were the eyewitnesses who knew His Mother, heard Jesus teach, and saw Him resurrected reliable?
If Jesus was who He claimed to be, and was actually raised from the dead, the remarkable circumstances of His birth are minor in comparison.
2006-07-13 22:52:08 · answer #9 · answered by Seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An angel came and warned him what was going on so yes he believed the immaculate conception.
2006-07-14 00:24:45 · answer #10 · answered by ~Donna~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋