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To: BipolarBob
She was Joseph's espoused wife. She was not "unmarried" as some say.

Betrothal to Joseph was already a legally binding marriage. This is why Joseph could not simply walk away from Mary without first getting a divorce.

186 posted on 05/28/2016 12:40:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Our blessed Mother, Mary: "All generations will call me blessed.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
She was Joseph's espoused wife. She was not "unmarried" as some say. Betrothal to Joseph was already a legally binding marriage. This is why Joseph could not simply walk away from Mary without first getting a divorce.

Sounds pretty legalistic to me. So, she was Josephs wife in name only with no intention of ever consummating the marriage? That's probably not what Joseph had in mind when he first proposed. This sounds like deception on somebody's part. But Blessed Mary was not that kind of girl. Happily Jesus had some half brothers later. I think James was one of them. So it ended well after all.

187 posted on 05/28/2016 1:53:23 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm so open minded that you should only think like me.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Betrothal to Joseph was already a legally binding marriage.

The RECORD shows that for at LEAST they were together for 12 years; yet in all that time they never had SEXUAL RELATIONS?

REALLY?


194 posted on 05/29/2016 12:59:38 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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