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“[T]he report concerning the child was noised abroad in Bethlehem. Some said, ‘The Virgin Mary has given birth before she was married two months.’ And many said, ‘She has not given birth; the midwife has not gone up to her, and we heard no cries of pain’” (Ascension of Isaiah 11 [A.D. 70]).

Hello. Jesus was born in a stable at night by all accounts. Who would be around to hear it?

And I doubt that anyone would have thought she was a virgin being pregnant before she came together with Joseph. Even Joseph didn't think that until the angel told him in a dream to take Mary as his WIFE.

No way the rest of the world thought she was pregnant outside of the usual way.

The questions of people in later passages of Scripture indicate that people though Jesus was son of Joseph. They didn't call her *Virgin Mary*.

Where do people get this drivel? Not from Scripture, that's for sure.

293 posted on 04/15/2011 9:53:56 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Where do people get this drivel? Not from Scripture, that's for sure.

The vatican library is full of this stuff. Most Priests ad bishops and various "other" catholic writers throughout the years add their own take on Mary as well. Not unusual at all to see volumes of writers to scroll by on these threads. I have noted the authosrs mention MAry and others with little reference to scripture. It's as though they design what the standard needs to be and then locate scripture to twist and apply according to that belief.

310 posted on 04/15/2011 1:26:42 PM PDT by caww
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