Why not?
2007-11-30 07:27:03 · 32 answers · asked by lilith663 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Gorgeous - only in your own mind it seems. Whey it absurd to ask a question that you don't know the anwer to?
2007-11-30 08:24:37 · update #1
Thanks all but now I have another question for those in the know - so what happened to all their descendents? Who alive can claim to be a direct descendent of Jesus?
2007-11-30 08:27:13 · update #2
There is a debate whether Mary stayed a virgin her whole life or not.
At the cross Jesus told John here is your mother and to her here is your son. It was the childs duty to care for a parent.
There is evidence that Jesus had siblings, we don't know the age of Joseph or if he had other wives, not uncommon.
So Joseph had other children but we dont know the mother
2. Some say it is heresy to say jesus had children and therefore married. The Divinci Code brought forth the idea and some believe the Knights Templar found "the grail" or descendants. Can we know for sure? lets do a DNA check. OOPs can't no body.
Noone is publicly claiming to be a descendant of any of the other relatives such as brothers and sisters or adirect descendent of Jesus. If they stayed Jewish, there would have been a lineage to follow, however, Christians, on average, do not continue to trace their lineage
2007-11-30 23:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by wayne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were no other children. If there were, they would have taken care of Mary after Jesus was gone. As it was, on the cross, he had to charge John to take care of her, which he did.
The references to brothers and sisters of Christ are probably to children of Joseph by an earlier wife. The popular view of Joseph as a young man is flawed. He was proabably a widower, and the marriage was arranged. A young man full of testosterone and ego would not have been so forgiving about Mary's pregnancy, and may have called for her death. Joseph was inclined to just divorce her quietly. A young man would not have had the material wherewithall to relocate to Egypt. It also explains Joseph's early death sometime between when Jesus was 12 and 30.
2007-11-30 07:54:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you are correct. Jesus did not have any brothers or sisters. I'm surprised at all the irresponsible answers saying otherwise. The bible most certainly does not give any evidence of brothers or sisters. If you were reading those verses they mentioned in the original language this would not even be a question. The word for brother in the ancient greek was interchangeable with cousin and I believe the term for relative in general.
These articles will shed some light on the subject better than I can.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Brethren_of_the_Lord.asp
http://www.catholic.com/library/mary_ever_virgin.asp
2007-11-30 07:42:23 · answer #3 · answered by Thom 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They did have more kids after Jesus....
Matthew 13:55,56 says: Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where, then, did this man get all these things?”
Clearly he had 4 brothers, but not sure on the # of sisters.
Mat. 1:25 says: "But he had no intercourse with her UNTIL she gave birth to a son; and he called his name Jesus." - this shows that Mary did have intercourse after Jesus was born, thus more proof of how Jesus most likely had brothers and sisters... cuz like it's been said, no birth-control in those days.
2007-11-30 07:41:12 · answer #4 · answered by Jolly J 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus has many other brothers and sisters mentioned numerous times in the bible. He is described as having four brothers (with all of their names given) and an unnamed number of sisters. Paul even singles out the leader of the church after Jesus' death from the other apostles as "James, the brother of the Lord."
2007-11-30 07:33:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They did have other children
Matt 13
54 And after coming into his home territory he began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said: “Where did this man get this wisdom and these powerful works? 55 Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
John 7
3 Therefore his brothers said to him: “Pass on over from here and go into Ju·de´a, in order that your disciples also may behold the works you do.
2007-11-30 07:41:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually, they did. It talks about how Jesus went to the temple in Jerusalem and his brothers were making fun of him. There is also speculation as to whether the book of James is by Jesus' brother James.
2007-11-30 07:31:51 · answer #7 · answered by bla 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, Jesus had at least one brother, don't remember any sisters being mentioned but not every detail of His life is included in the Bible.
2007-11-30 07:35:30 · answer #8 · answered by God's Fountain Pen 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, Joseph is not Jesus' father, Mary and Joseph had children together. Read the New Testament for the details.
2007-11-30 07:32:02 · answer #9 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No. They had children.
Matthew 13:55
Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
2007-11-30 07:40:57 · answer #10 · answered by deacon 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋