I’m kinda curious about your source. The infancy gospel of James puts her at 16, still creepy, and it also has fun weird shit like the priests having her take a magic abortion potion test to prove her purity and her vag burning the midwife’s hand.
The Greek word that’s eventually translated to English “virgin” means unwed. (I have no source at hand to support that.)
Let’s employ Occam’s razor.
Mary (lit. Beloved) is just some dirt poor farmers daughter who got knocked up and ran away to the next village with her boy friend. Gave birth in a barn.
Then 25 years later this dude shows up again, a carpenter by trade, and is a total hippie.
Then all his mates write down his adventures in letters to each other.
You forgot the one little fact that said virgin was 13 at the time of impregnation.
~PS. Epstein didn’t kill himself.~
I’m kinda curious about your source. The infancy gospel of James puts her at 16, still creepy, and it also has fun weird shit like the priests having her take a magic abortion potion test to prove her purity and her vag burning the midwife’s hand.
Southern Baptist. It’s what I was “taught” by some uppity Sunday School Teacher (or the preacher, or both).
Haha funny I thought those guys hated everything not explicitly in the KJV, but they clearly still have their own headcanon
It gets better.
The Greek word that’s eventually translated to English “virgin” means unwed. (I have no source at hand to support that.)
Let’s employ Occam’s razor.
Mary (lit. Beloved) is just some dirt poor farmers daughter who got knocked up and ran away to the next village with her boy friend. Gave birth in a barn.
Then 25 years later this dude shows up again, a carpenter by trade, and is a total hippie.
Then all his mates write down his adventures in letters to each other.