Author Topic: Christ's Nativity (Read 4960 times)

Olde Tymer · « **on:** December 16, 2018, 09:51:29 am »

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● Matt 1:18 . . His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

Mary must've let the cat out of the bag because the angel of the Lord had not yet informed Joseph of God's involvement in his best girl's baby. But I really don't think Joseph believed Mary's story because his next thought was to dump her.

● Matt 1:18-19 . . Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her, desired to put her away quietly.

The covenant that Moses' people agreed upon with God requires engaged women to be executed when they willingly sleep with another man.

● Deut 22:23-24 . . If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death-- the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife.

But the law is very particular in capital cases. Nobody can be executed for such crimes sans the testimony of a minimum of two witnesses.

● Deut 17:6-7 . . At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people.

The Bible says that Joseph was a righteous man; which means that he was a stickler for due process.

So then, in the absence of two witnesses, Joseph had to let his fiancée slide; the very same reason why grown-up Jesus let slide a woman caught red-handed in adultery. (John 8:9-11)
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