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To: FormerLib
Then you'll have no problem proving your assertion.

if you can find proof that Joseph was 90 years old when he married the virginal teenaged Mary, and that he had other children by another wife FROM SCRIPTURE, the Authorized Version, then I will give you a hearing.

1,921 posted on 02/27/2006 7:02:21 AM PST by Full Court (Keepers at home, do you think it's optional?)
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To: Full Court
if you can find proof that Joseph was 90 years old when he married the virginal teenaged Mary, and that he had other children by another wife FROM SCRIPTURE, the Authorized Version, then I will give you a hearing.

You are correct in stating that Scripture is silent on Joseph's age. You are incorrect in assuming this means your preconception is correct.

SD

1,924 posted on 02/27/2006 7:11:09 AM PST by SoothingDave
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And since we know that Scripture didn't even address the history of Joseph, the strawman that you've created is most apparent. Fortunately, we also have Holy Tradition, of which Scripture is the greatest part.

Reminds me of those folks who refused to eat potatoes because they weren't mentioned in Scripture. Or those folks who think it's somehow significant that Jesus never mentioned homosexuality (that the term itself didn't exist until the 1800's being overlooked) in Scripture.

Yeah, if it's not in Scripture, it just can't be, huh?


1,933 posted on 02/27/2006 7:34:45 AM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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