RE: Mary's 10 Year Pregnancy!
September 18, 2013 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2013 at 8:12 am by Drich.)
(September 17, 2013 at 3:46 pm)Tonus Wrote:(September 17, 2013 at 12:16 pm)Drich Wrote: Mary's virginity would have been 'checked' on a matter like this either to persecute her for being unfaithful or possiably him for having sex with his wife before she was ready to conceive.
What would the "check" have consisted of? I assume it would be blood-stained sheets. "Proving" her virginity this way would likely have required deception of some sort, wouldn't it?
Blood stained sheets were a way to proove the wifes claim that a husband had sex with her.
In this case the claim was that there was no sex... So ask yourself what verifiable physological change does a woman endure after her first sexual experience?
(September 17, 2013 at 10:10 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: I know you like to think eVeryone did EvErything right as rain back then Drich, it just ain't gonna happen. Humans can't follow the law nowadays, why would they follow it back then? Now if the story about Mary said "implied Judaistic rituals" when talking about her we'd have something to go off of but last I checked: Joseph didn't believe her. Therefore if Joseph didn't believe her then I would 'extrapolate'-- as you like to do-- that she didn't have an alibi even if they did "check" her.
dismiss this any way you need to in order to maintain your faith, but know deep down that the charges and claims made were basically death sentences in that time. The claims of Marry and Joseph would have been check and verified otherwise one if not both would have been stonned to death.
It's not like it is not where someone claim to be a prophet or 'chosen' by God, without serious challenge. Look at what they did to Christ eben though He met each and every single challenge they issued.
