WAS JOSEPH Present at the time MOTHER MARY[PBUH] GAVE BIRTH TO JESUS...[PBUH]? IF SO FROM WHEN TILL WHAT TIME?
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Yeah I guess he was, I mean, where else would he have gone? I think it was traditional then for the father to be present to deliver the baby. Matthew 1-2 and Luke 2.
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DUH, the day Christ was born!!!
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We know from Jewish records of familiy history that Mary was born at home, but after being weaned from her mother, she was sent to live in the temple, as were many other girls and boys during this time and culture.\n\nShe was raised and educated in the temple until she was close to puberty.  Boys could live in the temple past puberty, but girls could not, as they would be defiling the temple at the onset of puberty as per levitical law.\n\nWhen she was brought back home, her parents set out to marry her off and Joseph was the one chosen to be her husband.  From this point on, there was a one year waiting period in which she would continue to live at home and wait for Joseph to come and claim his bride.\n\nThere is actually more of Mary's childhood written in the Quran (copied from Jewish records) than in the bible. I find that quite interesting especially from those who claim that the bible was put together by Catholics for Catholics, as they would have put everything they could have about Mary if they had put the bible together.\n\nThere are also some false writing that have endured over the years about both Mary and Joseph.  You would have to compare them to secular records of times of births and deaths to try and judge truthfullness and accuracy.\n\nI have not researched Joseph's background and truthfully there is not much available for research.  There is a lot of speculation, but not much authentic truth to go on.
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Jesus was a prophet born without a father, this does not make him son of God, when Adam and eve were born with out a father and mother, so Jesus still had a mother, it is not important who was born and how the important thing is the message from God to us to follow his orders, interpreted through his prophets, Jesus was an esteem prophet.
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When she gave birth yes.. But when she first became pregnant she wasn't.. Remember she was just Bethrothed to be married to Joseph.. He thought to put her away secretly because he was a righteous man. But God sent an angle telling him to go ahead an marry her..
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QURAN SPEAKS ABOUT THE BIRTH OF JESUS PBUH IN (Chapter 3: verse 45-47)\n\n"Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah. \n "He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous." \nShe said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!"\n\n \n\n\nQuran says in chapter 3, verse 59\n"The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: "Be". And he was."\n\n\n\n\nQURAN (5:75) "Christ the son of Mary was no more than an Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth!"\n\n==========================\n\n\nREGARDING THIS SUBJECT...IF ANYBODY WANTS TO HEAR THE AUDIO FILE (10 MINS) .. JUST MESSAGE ME.
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Please refer to the Gospel accounts in the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).  You will note that Mary & Joseph did have sons so Jesus did have "half" brothers (in an earthly sense).  But remember that Jesus was all God and all Man.  Mary was just the way he entered the world as human. So technically, he was an only child - the Son of God.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God. \nFundamentalists are sometimes horrified when the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Mother of God. However, their reaction often rests upon a misapprehension of not only what this particular title of Mary signifies but also who Jesus was, and what their own theological forebears, the Protestant Reformers, had to say regarding this doctrine. \n\nA woman is a man’s mother either if she carried him in her womb or if she was the woman contributing half of his genetic matter or both. Mary was the mother of Jesus in both of these senses; because she not only carried Jesus in her womb but also supplied all of the genetic matter for his human body, since it was through her—not Joseph—that Jesus "was descended from David according to the flesh" (Rom. 1:3). \n\nSince Mary is Jesus’ mother, it must be concluded that she is also the Mother of God: If Mary is the mother of Jesus, and if Jesus is God, then Mary is the Mother of God. There is no way out of this logical syllogism, the valid form of which has been recognized by classical logicians since before the time of Christ. \n\nAlthough Mary is the Mother of God, she is not his mother in the sense that she is older than God or the source of her Son’s divinity, for she is neither. Rather, we say that she is the Mother of God in the sense that she carried in her womb a divine person—Jesus Christ, God "in the flesh" (2 John 7, cf. John 1:14)—and in the sense that she contributed the genetic matter to the human form God took in Jesus Christ. \n\nTo avoid this conclusion, Fundamentalists often assert that Mary did not carry God in her womb, but only carried Christ’s human nature. This assertion reinvents a heresy from the fifth century known as Nestorianism, which runs aground on the fact that a mother does not merely carry the human nature of her child in her womb. Rather, she carries the person of her child. Women do not give birth to human natures; they give birth to persons. Mary thus carried and gave birth to the person of Jesus Christ, and the person she gave birth to was God. \n\nThe Nestorian claim that Mary did not give birth to the unified person of Jesus Christ attempts to separate Christ’s human nature from his divine nature, creating two separate and distinct persons—one divine and one human—united in a loose affiliation. It is therefore a Christological heresy, which even the Protestant Reformers recognized. Both Martin Luther and John Calvin insisted on Mary’s divine maternity. In fact, it even appears that Nestorius himself may not have believed the heresy named after him. Further, the church he founded has now signed a joint declaration on Christology with the Catholic Church and recognizes Mary’s divine maternity, just as other Christians do. \n\nSince denying that Mary is God’s mother implies doubt about Jesus’ divinity, it is clear why Christians (until recent times) have been unanimous in proclaiming Mary as Mother of God\n\n\nTHE FACT OF THE ASSUMPTION\n\nRegarding the day, year, and manner of Our Lady's death, nothing certain is known. The earliest known literary reference to the Assumption is found in the Greek work De Obitu S. Dominae. Catholic faith, however, has always derived our knowledge of the mystery from Apostolic Tradition. Epiphanius acknowledged that he knew nothing definite about it . The dates assigned for it vary between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension. Two cities claim to be the place of her departure: Jerusalem and Ephesus. Common consent favours Jerusalem, where her tomb is shown; but some argue in favour of Ephesus. The first six centuries did not know of the tomb of Mary at Jerusalem. \n\nThe belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the boo
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Actually, Jesus is said to have been born approximately in the year which we now know as 6 B.C., or B.C.E.\n\nThe following paragraphs are used without permission:\n\nIn the 248th year of the Diocletian Era (based on Diocletian's ascension to the Roman throne), Dionysius Exiguus attempted to pinpoint the number of years since Jesus' birth, arriving at a figure of 753 years after the founding of Rome. Dionysius then set Jesus' birth as being December 25 1 ACN (for "Ante Christum Natum", or "before the birth of Christ"), and assigned AD 1 to the following year—thereby establishing the system of numbering years from the birth of Jesus: Anno Domini (which translates as "in the year of our Lord"). This system made the then current year 532, and almost two centuries later it won acceptance and became the established calendar in Western civilization due to its championing by the Venerable Bede.\n\nHowever, based on a lunar eclipse that Josephus reports shortly before the death of Herod the Great (who plays a major role in Matthew's account), as well as a more accurate understanding of the succession of Roman Emperors, Jesus' birth would have been some time before the year 4 BC/BCE. Having fewer sources and being further removed in time from the authors of the New Testament, establishing a reliable birth date now is particularly difficult.\n\nPlease take time to select the best answer.
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No, jesus was just one of many supposed "sons of god" that came out of the middle east area during this the same period.  Mithras in Persia, Ra in Egypt, and Bacchus in Greece also were worshiped at the same time with similar stories (virgin birth, wise men led by star, miracles)  The Bible simply out-competed the other books.  Its funny how many religions have stories where women are impregnated by God at times when their husbands were out of town.
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Both Islam and Christianity agree that Mary conceived Jesus when she was a virgin. She was chaste (throughout her life) and after the conception and birth of Jesus she gave birth to more children, who were Jesus's brothers and sisters.\nSo naturally she is remembered for the her having conceiving Jesus without marrying or the agency of a man.\nThat in essence is what the Virgin conception is all about.
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Personally, no. Mary was a Virgin, Immaculately Conceived, and was assumed into Heaven as a Virgin. \n\nHowever, some scholars believed that St. Joseph was a widow who was elderly and had grown up children  from that previous marriage and married the adolescent Mary as a favor to the High Priests of the Temple. Hence, Jesus had step-brothers. Other say that his reference to brothers is synonymous to cousins, which is how it was used back then, and still used today. \n\nOn Suday of Resurrection, the History Channel had a program about him, and on this topic you have brought up. The web History Channel web site might provide links to that show, as well as internet links to follow up on this subject.
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Mary is significant only in that God needed someone to give birth to His only begotten Son.  Putting any more importance on her than that is not scriptural, and erroneous.\n\nThis I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm
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I hate to disagree with you. By what is said in the Quran and what the bible says. My believe in God is not blind faith by the way. I believe in God because is logical to have a creator. Because is logical and we can see all his signs around us, from the fruit that grows on trees to the fish that swim in the sea everything is in balance and perfection. So I will give you my respective from a belief stand point and I hope you can accept it on the premisess that I am a MUSLIM and this is my own opinion.\n\nBismillah Her Rahman Her Rahim!\n\nJesus is the son of Mary, born of a virgin without any human father. May the blessings of Allah be upon them and their family!\n\nThe reason why I disagree with you in that Jesus was the son of Joseph of Arematea are as follows: \n\n\n1-) First and foremost. If you believe in God you know he says be and things just are. This is something you just know as a believer. \nIt happened when God created the world and when God created Adam out of dirt. Allah made us know that he was going to send Jesus PBUH to Guide hid people in the book of Daniel. \n\n2-) It is a well known fact that Joseph and Mary were not in relations. This is wel documented by historians as well as scholars. (In Islam this person does not play a central role in the story of Jesus PBUH).\n\nMatthew 1:25 is, however, quite explicit that Joseph could not be the father of Jesus, stating that Mary and Joseph had not had sex before Jesus was born.\n\nJoseph's original intent, though, was to divorce Mary, once he had discovered her pregnancy, though some scholars, and most older translations, have expressed this more euphemistically, since Joseph, a man having just been described as righteous, undergoing divorce, would imply that divorce was righteous and he could have not been the father, so this throws your theory out of the way! n the Bible, Mary has a fiancé (Saint Joseph) who plays a small role, but the Qur'an does not mention this. Instead, the context of the Qur'an gives a strong impression that Jesus' birth was purely a miracle from Allah without any role of a male, and it compares him with Adam (3:59). \n\n3-) From the Quran and other sources, we know that Mary was a virgin at the time of conception. further is stated that Jesus himself (PBUH) made clear that he was a prophet of God from the crib thus saving his mother's life. Unlike the Biblical account, Jesus performs several miracles as an infant.This is well known to all muslims.  In the Qur'an Zachariah is Mary's (in Arabic: Maryam) adopted guardian, but in the Bible they are inlaws (Zachariah's wife being Mary's cousin). In both accounts, Jesus is born to Mary while she is a virgin.\n\n4-) PROVEN: Although there were people who blame Mary of adultery (19:30-33), Allah proved them wrong. As a matter of fact and because of what I said of Joseph not playing a central role in the islamic account I want to share a little something that might shed light in this issue: \n\nOne of the clearest pieces of evidence is a divorce record from 111, entirely coincidentally between a couple named Mary and Joseph, which was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. \n\nWeather Joseph helped Mary raise Jesus (PBUH) or not that is another matter, But the fact is that Jesus's birth was a meracle, just as was his whole life.\n\nNow I can site several verses from bothe the Quran and the bible, but tonight I have very bad eye infection, so I really can't sit here for too long. \n\nMay the blessings of Allah be upon you.\n\nYOUR CASE OF JOSEPH BEING THE FATHER OF JESUS IS INVALID BECAUSE\n\n1- Historians had said that he wanted to divorce? WHy would you do that if that is your kid?\n\n2- The Quran does not see this person Joseph as a main character in Mary's life\n\n3- We know about Mary's character from Surah Mariam, also from the bible. It was well known that this was a woman of purity and character, thus she would not have LIED .\n\n4- The dead se
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"It seems every religion has a guy whose mommy didn't have sex,..."\n\nWhere does it say Mary didn't have sex?  Or, who says Mary didn't have sex after the angel Gabriel visited her?
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Mary's parents were Joachim and Anne.  Both are saints of the Roman Catholic Church.  She was probably born around 12 or 13 BC, perhaps earlier, since she is presumed to have been fairly young when Christ was born in 1 AD.  Where was she born?  Somewhere in Galilee.
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No way, jose.  \n\nOnly one person can claim that.  \nMary, the Virgin Mother of Jesus from 2000 some-odd years ago.  \n\nOhhh................well aren't you clever.  Or not!