She had a salvation experience. I don’t know the mechanism but she came to faith. Everything that happened before was no longer relevant. No I can’t prove it.
I think you don't have to prove it.She had a salvation experience. I don’t know the mechanism but she came to faith. Everything that happened before was no longer relevant. No I can’t prove it.
I can’t prove it, the concept has been discussed in one of these forums in the past. I don’t remember most of the arguments. The Universal (Catholic) church has pretty much whitewashed the concept. There are Jewish scholars that have this understanding and laugh at the Christians for their beliefs.@steve are you saying Joseph was definitively a polygynist? What's your proof? I would say it's a great possibility, but unless you're seeing something in scripture that I've never seen, how are you so certain?
Wasn't expecting you to battle it. I'm more on your side and wish more people in Christianity would be open to it. I'm just not seeing it definitively anywhere in scripture.I can’t prove it, the concept has been discussed in one of these forums in the past. I don’t remember most of the arguments. The Universal (Catholic) church has pretty much whitewashed the concept. There are Jewish scholars that have this understanding and laugh at the Christians for their beliefs.
I believe that it is true, but it’s not a hill that I will die on trying to defend.
That’s what I lean towards.It would explain a lot, and could even help the RCC in their pursuit of perpetual virginity for Mary. Maybe after Yeshua, Joseph left her alone and stayed active with his other wives. Possibility?
I'm not an anthropologist, but I'm fairly certain that the overwhelming amount of traditional/tribal cultures around the globe (African, Amazonian, Aboriginal, Asian, Polynesian, etc) segregate the sexes for most activities, marry their women young, and frown upon rampant promiscuity. I don't think it would be much different in 1st century Judea.
@steve are you saying Joseph was definitively a polygynist? What's your proof? I would say it's a great possibility, but unless you're seeing something in scripture that I've never seen, how are you so certain?
That last paragraph in that article... Amusing how everyone asserts that, but then when it comes to polygyny they backtrack on it.I went looking for an online explanation of all this and found: https://www.gotquestions.org/Joseph-married-before-Mary.html