why did joseph believe mary when she said god got her pregnant?

Question

didnt he think that was at all suspicious? if your spous said that to you would you believe it?

Answer 1

Perhaps he had already read the Mithras myth from which the tale of the virgin birth of Jesus was "borrowed".

Answer 2

The Lord told him in a dream/vision not to be afraid to take Mary as a wife because she was going to have a child of God's and they were to name him Immanuel (God is with us). Now after you have experienced this, and you knew about what happened to people who touched the Ark of the Covenant and you knew that what was said was more or less she was God's property, would you try to get her into your bed? No not even after she had Jesus -- you would know she was set aside for the Lord. Remember these are people who fell down on the ground when they heard Jesus say I Am in the garden of Gethsemane. How can people say she and Joseph had a pile of kids after Jesus was born. Just absolutely ridiculous to even think it.

Answer 3

Matt.1:20 an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream Joseph defendant of David,do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife,for that which is concieved in her is of the Holy Spirit im not a male but if an angel came to me in a dream yes,i would and why wouldnt he believe her they were engaged (espoused)to be married(when he truly loved her)

Answer 4

MikeM: That was truly funny.

To answer the question God did not exactly "get her pregnant?" That sounds obscene. He created Jesus originally. He also created the female reproductive system. It was a simple matter, for Him, to transfer Jesus life into Mary's womb. How was Joseph convinced. In a dream, he was told not to be afraid to take Mary as a wife. That she was not lying.

Answer 5

Joseph did not believe her at first. At first he felt hurt, but then God appeared to him through a dream and told Joseph that Mary was pregnant through the Holy Spirit's intervention. =]

Answer 6

The Jews were unbending when it came to the Holy and jealous nature of their One God. The Jews were similarly unbending in issues of chastity and marriage. To be convicted of adultery, as a Jew, was a crime. For a young Jewish woman it was a very serious thing – punished, possibly, by being stoned to death and forever casting shame on her entire family.

Now here is Mary, a young Jewish woman. Her betrothed Husband, Joseph, is a Jewish man. Joseph, when he found out Mary was pregnant was going to divorce her quietly. (At this time in Jewish history an engagement was a much more formal affair than it is today and to dissolve an engagement required a divorce) You can imagine he did not want anything to do with a young woman who was pregnant before her marriage. Neither would he, or any other Jewish man, accept the word of a woman regarding the manner of her conception. He would assume she became pregnant in the normal way, by lying with a man, and want nothing to do with her. For a young Jewish woman to say she was pregnant with a child created by God was just as likely to get her killed for blasphemy as getting pregnant in the old-fashioned way. So, something amazing had to happen to change Joseph’s mind about Mary’s pregnancy; something VERY amazing. The Bible says Joseph was visited by angels in a dream. Obviously this was no run of the mill dream. Joseph experienced something so profound that it countermanded his cultural and religious ideas to such a point that he was willing to incur the wrath and indignation of not only his family, but his entire community by taking Mary as his wife.

Answer 7

He was told by an angel in a dream that Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit. I think he had his doubts until then.

Answer 8

Initially he doubted Mary. But, an angle appeared to Joseph: Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Answer 9

Joseph was a decendant of David and he was a believer. He knew the power of god. It would depends on their relationship with god for you to believe such a thing coming out of their mouth.

Answer 10

Joseph believed her because he had a dream that same night an angel told him he was going to hasve a son and take his wife to Jerusalem

Answer 11

The notion of gods mating with human women is part of all the Mediterranean mythologies. The Greeks alone listed all of these as having one of their parents be a god: Achilles,
Aeacus, Aeneas, Alexander the Great, Amphion, Arcas, Britomartis, Clymene, Dardanus, The Dioscuri, Castor, Polydeuces, Epaphus, Esoteric, Harmonia, Helen, Heracles (also known by the Roman spelling, Hercules), Iapetus, Iasion
Lacedaemon, Minos, Memnon, Orion, Perseus (mythology), Rhadamanthus, Sarpedon, Theseus, Tityas, Zethus Ganapati

Every heroic tale of the region involves the gods and every hero is either the offspring of a god or the favorite of a god, so why should Paul's Christ religion not have a demigod like all the others? The Roman emperors, once formally deified by the senate, had the title divi filius (son of a god).

Supposedly in the case of Joseph he was about to send her away when an angel appeared to him to confirm Jesus was divinely conceived. Of course the word on Yeshua in Rabbinical circles was that Jesus was the illegitimate son of Roman soldier named Panteras, since the Jews of Jesus day knew how babies are conceived. We see hints that Jesus' illegitimate birth was widely known in verses like:

John 8:19 ......Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father?

John 8:39-41.....They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. ....Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Throughout this chapter Jesus is claiming God is his father and his confronters are saying he is a child of fornication, not even a descendant of Abraham and he's never met his father, let alone know where he is or talked to him.

While they accepted the notion that all humanity are children of God is the sense of his supreme fatherhood, they quite reasonably did not believe gods impregnate women. Nor do I.