Tag: mary

Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 1: 18-25 – Mary is pregnant and Joseph marries her anyway.

Thomas Less, December 24, 2010

¹⁸This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.¹⁹Joseph, her fiancé, was a good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly.

²⁰As he considered this, …

Two of the gospels disagree on who Joseph's father was. How can that be if God is all-knowing?

Thomas Less, September 23, 2010

I have seen list of Bible contradictions, and for me, the hardest one to clarify is this one. Most of the rest are simple discrepancies and not contradictions at all. The difference is that with a contradiction, it is impossible for both statements to be true. With a discrepancy, the statements do not agree, but they could both be true. This turns out to be a discrepancy, because it is …