Did Mary have other children?
Jul 10, 2012 13:16:06 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2012 13:16:06 GMT -5
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***But Matthew’s account says that Joseph “had no relations with her UNTIL she bore a son.” (Matthew 1:25, Catholic New American Bible, italics ours.), so it seems reasonable that after she had Jesus Mary had sex with her husband and conceived her other children in the normal manner.
**Some claim that Jesus meant brothers in a spiritual or metaphoric sense of people that shared his faith but the apostle John (who also happened to be Jesus first cousin) distinguished between the two groups by stating: “He [Jesus] and his mother and brothers AND his disciples went down to Capernaum.” -- John 2:12
That is why people like John P. Meier, former president of the Catholic Bible Association of America, wrote:
** Some claim that the Greek word translated "brother" in fact meant "cousin" but this is not true. The Greeks had a word for "brother” (a·del·phos′) and another different word for “cousin” (a·ne·psi·os′); so when the bible writers said "brother" they MEANT brother.
Further reading
nephesh-chaiyah.blogspot.com/2008/12/jesus-brothers-or-cousins.html
** The tradition that the scriptures are refering to Josephs children from an earlier marriage has no basis in scripture.
**While it is true that the bible doesn't identify the children as the "children of Mary" this is not conclusive, since even today children traditionally carry the name of their father. In other words being identified with ones legal father does not constitute proof that one way or ther other that they were not born by the man's wife.
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***But Matthew’s account says that Joseph “had no relations with her UNTIL she bore a son.” (Matthew 1:25, Catholic New American Bible, italics ours.), so it seems reasonable that after she had Jesus Mary had sex with her husband and conceived her other children in the normal manner.
**Some claim that Jesus meant brothers in a spiritual or metaphoric sense of people that shared his faith but the apostle John (who also happened to be Jesus first cousin) distinguished between the two groups by stating: “He [Jesus] and his mother and brothers AND his disciples went down to Capernaum.” -- John 2:12
That is why people like John P. Meier, former president of the Catholic Bible Association of America, wrote:
** Some claim that the Greek word translated "brother" in fact meant "cousin" but this is not true. The Greeks had a word for "brother” (a·del·phos′) and another different word for “cousin” (a·ne·psi·os′); so when the bible writers said "brother" they MEANT brother.
Further reading
nephesh-chaiyah.blogspot.com/2008/12/jesus-brothers-or-cousins.html
** The tradition that the scriptures are refering to Josephs children from an earlier marriage has no basis in scripture.
**While it is true that the bible doesn't identify the children as the "children of Mary" this is not conclusive, since even today children traditionally carry the name of their father. In other words being identified with ones legal father does not constitute proof that one way or ther other that they were not born by the man's wife.
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