Re: Where did the Mormon God have sex with Mary?
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 9:46 pm
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Not the earliest possible, according to a Catholic newspaper, "Alma White commented on the age of marriage in Palestine, ‘A girl is usually married in her twelfth or thirteenth year, and sometimes as early as her tenth year.'”
Unlikely, a 20 year old woman wouldn't be "young" in the first century.huckelberry wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 5:22 pmI can see how it would get mentioned if she was 50 or 60 such as the story of the mother of John the Baptist.If she was 20 it would be a matter of no particular note.
If you had to bet 10,000 dollars to guess Mary's age, what would you say?
That's misleading. Those numbers are artificially low because of the high rate of infant and childhood mortality. In Ancient Rome, if you made it to the age of twenty, you could easily expect to live into your fifties or longer.doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:56 pmUnlikely, a 20 year old woman wouldn't be "young" in the first century.huckelberry wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 5:22 pmI can see how it would get mentioned if she was 50 or 60 such as the story of the mother of John the Baptist.If she was 20 it would be a matter of no particular note.
"Short life expectancy was one of the motivating factors behind this early age, as the average life expectancy for most people in the ancient world was between 30-40 years of age."
https://aleteia.org/2019/03/25/how-old- ... ith-jesus/
Seriously though, which scenario paints god in the better light; He couldn't do the insemination through magic - or - he could, but didn't want to.Dwight wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:38 pmAs someone in the barely a millennial generation that had seminary in the mid-to-late-90s it seemed like okay, maybe it had to be his sperm so Jesus could be a demigod (cause how else could he do all that he did), but something more akin to IVF or something, not sex. That made it more palatable. Mary was a virgin, or at least believed that she was, and everyone else. God could deliver and guide that one sperm to do its mission. Though now I realize that frame of reference was far away from what Brigham had and I guess to him Mary fell into a sleep (or was given a roofie) and god did the deed that had to be done cause reasons.
The full quote from your newspaper source is:doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:53 pmNot the earliest possible, according to a Catholic newspaper, "Alma White commented on the age of marriage in Palestine, ‘A girl is usually married in her twelfth or thirteenth year, and sometimes as early as her tenth year.'”
https://aleteia.org/2019/03/25/how-old- ... ith-jesus/
ALeteia is the Catholic Deseret News.
So someone in 1910 observed customs amongst Palestinian Muslims and we are to extrapolate that to Jewish customs in the first century.One biblical historian notes, “Some customs of biblical Palestine continued through the centuries, and after her trip to the Near East around 1910, Alma White commented on the age of marriage in Palestine, ‘A girl is usually married in her twelfth or thirteenth year, and sometimes as early as her tenth year.'”
I spent a long period of my life as a believing, well-read and apologetically argumentative member of a major Christian denomination that regarded itself as being part of the central traditions of the historical churches of the west. At no time did I find myself asked to believe anything in particular about some supposed maternal age for the conception of Jesus. Nor did I ever hear the topic discussed. Mary was always represented in art as a rather young mother, but that is all. I am sure it is possible to locate newspaper or magazine articles from time to time that say something on such points. But it is simply false to say that "most "sane" christians believe God impregnated 14 year old Mary". And that is pretty well all I have to say on this topic.Chap wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 2:08 pmSo far as I am aware, there is no reliable historical evidence of the age at which Mary first became pregnant. I know of no major Christian group amongst whom it is generally believed that the age in question was 14, or indeed any other age.doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 10:14 pm
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"that is all"? When did God get Mary's consent to get her pregnant? It wouldn't matter if Mary was 30 years old, Mary never consented to get pregnant