i read an excerpt from the book of mary stating that she was a perpetual virgin....joseph was quite up in age and was a widower with children, but was a god-fearing man and so did not sleep with her and kept her chastity...the only reason she was married was because that was apparently the law back then....so "thru god" he was chosen to take care of mary and jesus....apparently he did not have a long life after raising jesus.
jesus was born in a cave and later when everyone was called to their birthplace...joseph, mary, and family all went to bethlehem...with no room in the inn they were in the stables but jesus was already born by then and quite possibly no longer an infant.
this is very interesting to me because i was taught that mary did not stay a virgin (jw teachings) cause the bible mentions that jesus had brothers and sister, but this very well could have been josephs children from a previous marriage.... the excerpt came from a book called "lost books of the bible" by rh value publishing.
I don't know where the info that Joseph was an old man with children from a previous wife comes from. How do we know that he was not young and never had an ex wife and her children
i read it in one of those "lost" books of the bible and was curious to see what everyone thought
i read an excerpt from the book of mary stating that she was a perpetual virgin....joseph was quite up in age and was a widower with children, but was a god-fearing man and so did not sleep with her and kept her chastity...the only reason she was married was because that was apparently the law back then....so "thru god" he was chosen to take care of mary and jesus....apparently he did not have a long life after raising jesus.
jesus was born in a cave and later when everyone was called to their birthplace...joseph, mary, and family all went to bethlehem...with no room in the inn they were in the stables but jesus was already born by then and quite possibly no longer an infant.
this is very interesting to me because i was taught that mary did not stay a virgin (jw teachings) cause the bible mentions that jesus had brothers and sister, but this very well could have been josephs children from a previous marriage.... the excerpt came from a book called "lost books of the bible" by rh value publishing.
What is truly sad is the way Joseph totally bought her story... what a pssy
- She did what most single women do when they go to an exotic European country like Italy or France... they hook up with some stud muffin and do the nasty.
LMFAO!!!!!!
my mother once told me a story of how john denver supposedly hated jehovah's witnesses more then life itself.
my legend, these are two examples i heard while in the witnesses .... 1. at a john denver concert, he once asked all jehovah's witnesses in the audience to leave.. 2. johnny carson once asked him if he did this, and when he said he did, johnny carson asked him to leave the show in rehearsal and re-booked someone else.. ... awhile back i started looking on the internet for information on this and could not see any proof of this and wondered if anyone ever heard this before or was it just something that was in our area.
i have a feeling it is something others heard of.
i also heard that he loved the witnesses and asked them to leave cuz he was going to tell some "dirty" jokes
my mother once told me a story of how john denver supposedly hated jehovah's witnesses more then life itself.
my legend, these are two examples i heard while in the witnesses .... 1. at a john denver concert, he once asked all jehovah's witnesses in the audience to leave.. 2. johnny carson once asked him if he did this, and when he said he did, johnny carson asked him to leave the show in rehearsal and re-booked someone else.. ... awhile back i started looking on the internet for information on this and could not see any proof of this and wondered if anyone ever heard this before or was it just something that was in our area.
i have a feeling it is something others heard of.
1. At a John Denver concert, he once asked all Jehovah's Witnesses in the audience to leave.
also heard this and and the same with Gloria Estefan
when i was a witness i had always hoped it wasnt true cuz i liked her so much
due to a new business venture ... the family is relocating.
hopefully this will help our fade.
gonna be nice to leave this congregation.
annalice:
I live in the Saratoga county region.
wilton mall?
due to a new business venture ... the family is relocating.
hopefully this will help our fade.
gonna be nice to leave this congregation.
We went camping in the Adirondacks around Racquet (sp?)
i lived right on the sacandaga in the adirondacks for a while
loved it!!!
it's been a while since this topic has been brought up.
use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.
1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??
1991-1999--Ephrata PA
1999-2001--Johnstown NY
someone in a completely different segment of associates from you old ex-jws here posed this wish:.
i've often wished someone would do a study to see if there is a real correlation between personality type and religious/spiritual leanings.
i've long noticed that in fantasy subcultures and "new" religions, as well as those that attract many adult converts (and have trouble retaining people born into the faith), the same types keep showing up.
i havent personally done any studies myself....but i tend to think that jws attract or are full of certain personality or emotional type that are drawn to them......ex: ppl who are in denial....LOL
with the hotting up of the wt articles about not listening to apostate lies.
i was wondering, when you where in the borg did you ever wonder what these "lies" were.. its a strange thing but i never did.
i never even knew what they said about us and i didnt care.. in other walks of life, if you hear that someone has been lied about, you usually want to know what it is (well i do cos im nosey) but in all my 20 years i didnt wonder about what the apostates were saying.
an apostate lie is simply a truth told by an ex-JW
what is the definition of an apostate by jw standards anyway?
