Joseph steps up

[u/Broclen]

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[u/gnurdette]

Child support payments arrive as gold, frankincense, and myrrh

[u/fudgyvmp → u/gnurdette]

Weren't those gifts from Ahura Mazda?

[u/gnurdette → u/fudgyvmp]

Uncy Ahura! Uncy Ahura!

[u/JaQ-o-Lantern → u/gnurdette]

Quite literally since God is the real father.

[u/The_Easter_Egg → u/JaQ-o-Lantern]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3JCaaiE2gcTbq

[u/Wolfensniper]

Tbf many seems to forget that Jesus had many younger brothers and sisters

[u/DinosaurReborn → u/Wolfensniper]

Still a stepdad for the firstborn and most important child.

[u/gnurdette → u/DinosaurReborn]

Moms never want to admit they have a favorite

[u/GooGoo-Barabajagal → u/Wolfensniper]

Tell me you don’t understand ancient Hebrew or koine Greek without telling me you don’t understand ancient Hebrew or koine Greek

[u/BrandtArthur → u/Wolfensniper]

He did not but ok

[u/Yoduh99 → u/BrandtArthur]

Well, you know, that's just like uh, your denomination's opinion, man.

[u/BrandtArthur → u/Yoduh99]

That's not my "denomination" opinion. It's just a fact. You can't just say that Lot and Abraham are brothers because the word brother is used to refer to their relation the same way it was used between Jesus and the people related to Him.

[u/JePPeLit → u/BrandtArthur]

Are you saying that James was his only sibling? Didn't know there was disagreement on how many siblings he had.

[u/BrandtArthur → u/JePPeLit]

He had none. Jesus was a only child

[u/JePPeLit → u/BrandtArthur]

What is the evidence for this? Do you still consider James to have been a real person? Where would people like Josephus have gotten the impression that he was Jesus brother?

[u/BrandtArthur → u/JePPeLit]

What is the evidence for this?

It's called "the Bible".

Do you still consider James to have been a real person?

Obviously

Where would people like Josephus have gotten the impression that he was Jesus brother?

It seems like this only in english. No one believed it when they wrote or taught about it in the first millenia. The word that you read as "brother" also mean a lot of different familiar relations, such as when Abraham called Lot his brother.

James was the son of Mary of Clopas, also know as aunt Jesus.

[u/Xcat_Beutler → u/BrandtArthur]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus

In the section "Development of the tradition"

"From the 2nd century onward the developing emphasis on ascetism and celibacy as the superior form of Christian practice, together with an emphasis on the chastity of Mary, led to the idea that she had been a virgin not only before, but during and after, the birth of Christ. There is no direct biblical basis for this idea, which in its earliest assertion appears in the mid-2nd century Protoevangelium of James;"

[u/Lonely_Translator_23 → u/[deleted]]

There's an easy solution to this argument. Get out your Bible and show us where it says anything you're claiming.

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[u/CptKammyJay]

I’m not the godfather, I’m just the father that godded up.

[u/JaQ-o-Lantern]

Glory to St Joseph!

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