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Understand this. >> questions about joseph's age and brothers verses cousin's 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 there's a concerted effort to make jesus competitive with the other deity. >> jonathan reed uses parallels in the story of jesus virgin birth and that of caesar augustus. >> you have a set of stories about caesar ...

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 pea's had crushed. you take something like this give it a nice smooth edge to it. the process which was used. these are the drills of antiquity. >> the cordless ...

>> 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 traditional birth place. there is very little doubt about the city and for us the probability about 85 percent...

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 doesn't 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 of joseph the brother of jesus. with those three new testament names on it some at first thought i...

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 overnight and the staff of the gods that was flower then that man would be the husband of mary. of c...