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Understand this. >> questions about josephs age and brothers verses cousins debate created a dilemma over the virgin birth. >> i think it is critical can he believe we believe in the virgin birth. >> in the early church the primary concern is really on jesus divine origin and on the virgnal conception of the birth. >> when you look at the gospel story especially the christmas story theres a concerted effort to make jesus competitive with the other deity. >> jonathan reed uses parallels in the st...

Old testament wine was a popular beverage. >> the juice descended by gravity they put it into storage jars and it was stored and made into wine. >> they were very self sufficient. >> that is the same affair for peasants. they make their own pottery and carpentry. >> as a carpenter by braid joseph and apprentice jesus would have used some of these tools. >> this is something that is us used. >> a brush. -- crushed. >> chick pees had to peas had crushed. you take something like this give it a nice...

>> where have all of the christians gone? >> they are afraid to come. >> they are afraid of all of the turmoil and fighting that has plagued this area. >> this bethlehem used to be 100 percent christian. now it stands only above 35. >> i talked with people who used to wait in line for hours to get into the church of the nativity. now it looks like you can walk right in. >> absolutely. the door we will be going through. >> so this is the traditional birth place of jesus? >> this is the traditiona...

Man should die better than one man suffer. >> his bones ended up in this box? >> yes. >> pontius pilot and ciaphus inscriptions are authentic but name alone doesnt prove a thing. >> we have two os wear res the first one says judah son of jesus. the other one says jesus son of joseph. >> nothing relating, though, to the jesus of nazareth in the new testament. >> no way whatsoever. these are very common names which you find recurring again and again. >> not long ago one was found inscribed jameson...

Tells us it was here that the miracle of jesus birth began. the ark angel gabriel told mary she was to be the virgin mother of the son of god. there is nothing else written in the gospels about the lives jesus and his family led in nazareth. with so little information about jesus boy hoods early christians were curious and to respond ancient authors invented stories to fill the gap. they were known as the apocryphal gospel. >> they were asked to come to the temple and then they left them there o...

Leading historian in the catholic church. christians wondered about the lives of jesus mary and joseph. >> it is a story about a young jesus that was popular and was treated like dime store novels. >> very interesting book actually is the story . it starts to image what must it be like for god to be a child as it were. in one sense it starts off as den nas the menace so you can see he starts off well really a. >> other stories depicted joseph as a 90-year-old widower with children. her mistakes ...

>> by the end of the story he has power and wisdom under control and hes ready to use it only for good. >> so why are the everyday lives of mary and joseph shoulded in mystery. joseph disappears after the christmas story early christians depicting him as they please. >> joseph is portrayed as an elderly gentlemen. >> a former jesuit priest teaches to christians muslims and jews. >> joseph is written out of the stories to preserve his virginity, not only virgin conception of jesus but mary contin...

Joseph. >> nothing relating, though, to the jesus of nazareth in the new testament. >> no way whatsoever. these are very common names which you find recurring again and again. >> not long ago one was found inscribed jameson of joseph the brother of jesus. with those three new testament names on it some at first thought it had to be authentic. >> i think there is no doubt. >> he was part of the forensic team called in to aut then tate it. closer examination show the inscription was forged. >> you...

The door we will be going through. >> so this is the traditional birth place of jesus? >> this is the traditional birth place. there is very little doubt about the city and for us the probability about 85 percent that the church is actually built over the right place. we have two different versions one in luke where mary and joseph start from nazareth and matthew where mary and joseph are native of bethlehem. thats why jesus is born here. i say most scholars matthews account is preferable. >> di...

Of jesus? >> the apocryphal gospels tried to clear up the mystery by presenting the brothers and sisters children of mary and joseph from a catholic marriage. >> it is the belief of the church mary remained a virgin after the birth of jesus. the doctrine of marys perpetual virginity the brothers and sisters refer to do the gospel it is their cousins. >> thats pie et driving the interpretation so they understand this. >> questions about josephs age and brothers verses cousins debate created a dil...