(May 1, 2014 at 12:56 pm)BlackSwordsman Wrote: Okay I have always found the story of Mary coming to Joseph and telling him "I am pregnant".
If I was married to a virgin, who came to me and said " I am pregnant but I your not the father and I didn't cheat"
Hate to break it to you, but I'd call bullshit. It sounds like a cosmically weak excuse she made to cover up an affair.
Now on the flip side some people argue translation of the word virgin means, "young" not "pure".
Same deal, so what if this god story, was just a weak excuse to cover up an affair that got horribly out of control?
IMO the story of Mary and Joseph is actually a metaphor for the unification of the Jews and Samaritans. The Joseph character represents the Jews and the Mary character represents the Samaritans. This is based upon the Old Testament.
Mary (the Samaritans) was a virgin because the Samaritans had never produced a prophet for the Jews. Joseph (the Jews) accepted the idea that their new prophet would come from the Samaritans (as told in Matthew chapter 1).
For thousands of years stupid people have actually believed that a Middle East Jewish virgin actually gave birth to God. That is beyond being stupid.
