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To: metmom
"No, it's Catholics that teach that Jesus was an only child. The Bible doesn't support that."

If you have anything to refute the Protoevangelium of James, in the words of an irritating frequent poster, prove it!

1,471 posted on 12/13/2009 12:18:16 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

Jesus family is mentioned several times in the Gospels and elsewhere. His brothers are even named in two of them.
Here are the references, as per your request.

Matthew 12:46-47 46While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. 47Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”

Matthew 13:53-57 53When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. 54Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. 55”Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” 57And they took offense at him.

Mark 3:31 31Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

Mark 6:1-3 1Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! 3Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

John 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

John 7:1-5 1After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. 2But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, 3Jesus’ brothers said to him, “You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. 4No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5For even his own brothers did not believe in him.


1,490 posted on 12/13/2009 12:51:01 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Natural Law
The Infancy Gospel Of James is no part of the Scriptures and in fact contradicts what the account in Luke chapter one says about how Mary learned she was to bear Jesus.
In the Protoevangelium Joseph confronts Mary and Mary claims ignorance of the source of her pregnancy:

” And she wept bitterly, saying: I am innocent, and have known no man. And Joseph said to her: Whence then is that which is in thy womb? And she said: As the Lord my God liveth, I do not know whence it is to me.”

But of course an angel had previously explained to Mary even before she became pregnant.

1,507 posted on 12/13/2009 1:09:35 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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