(July 29, 2018 at 4:49 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(July 29, 2018 at 3:14 pm)emjay Wrote: I didn't know that either (ex-Protestant here if that makes a difference)... didn't know there was supposed to be anything special about Mary. Are you saying she was claimed to be born of a virgin as well as Jesus? Or am I completely misunderstanding your meaning here?
As to the other, have you tried swivelling your head around?
Yeah there are actually a lot of legends and some of them are in the books that didn't make it into the Bible, like the life of Mary. She was born of a virgin and lived in a church/ synagogue and prayed her whole life until her dad found her a suitor - Joseph.
There is also a story about Jesus's cross that it was made of wood that was from the Tree of Knowledge whose branch Adam took with him when he left the Garden. Then the wood was used by Moses to put a brass snake on it. Then wood was used in Jerusalem where it was a bridge over the stream and Queen of Sheba knelt over it because she had a vision what it will be used for. etc.
Also there are stories about Jesus' childhood. Like that he played with Judas and they were making birds out of clay which Judas started squashing so Jesus made them alive so they could run away. And this is something I don't get because later on Selma Lagerlof wrote the same story and won a Nobel for it.
Right, well I never knew any of that, but to be fair I haven't read the whole Bible, so it might not necessarily be because it's in one of these extraneous sources.
