I’m Off to Rome and the Conclave!

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1. Well, we may have agreed on something before but I just came across this video about going to Rome, Glad your trip was safe.

   You are soft spoken which I’m glad that you don’t yell your opinions. But I caught something out of the corner of my ear. A statement by you that Jesus was the son of an Unwed Mother. It is about 2min. 54 sec. in the recording. I must vehemently disagree. The scriptures say that Joseph and Mary were a Married couple at the time of Jesus conception and birth. Please take a closer look, as the single mother statement just simply is not true according to the KJV Bible, which is the only reading I trust, Matthew 1:18-20 and chapter 2:19-23.

   I have heard others say that Mary was a single mother before. I just can’t figure out where that comes from.

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   1. Dear Doug, thanks so much for reading my blog and taking it seriously. First of all, I’d be careful about taking the KJV as ultimately trustworthy. It’s a lovely example of familiar 16th century English. But it obviously can’t reflect the huge strides in biblical scholarship particularly over the last 100 years based on texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and those discovered at Nag Hammadi. The New Revised Standard Version is much better. As for Jesus being the son of an unwed teenage mother . . .. If you find that uncomfortable, how about Jesus being the product of an extra-marital pregnancy that caused his father to consider divorcing his teenage mother? I believe that’s consonant even with the KJV text.

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2. So Mike that all sounds like a duck and weave answer, but you already put your foot in your mouth if you don’t mind my saying, as do the perverted versions of scripture that don’t make sense such as the one that you mentioned. Matthew 1:19 says in almost all versions that Joseph was minded to put Mary away.

   You can’t divorce someone that you are not married to.

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