04-01-2004, 11:12 PM
Nathan, as we're on the subject, I also remembering hearing that Nazareth as a place didn't actually exist as the time of Jesus, so must have been a later addition/re-write if he was really from there. An alternative explanation is that he was in fact a 'Nazarene'. This was a sect with the belief that a husband and wife would dedicate the first year of married life to God and refrain from sexual intercourse. Any child that came about from that year could clearly not have been from a normal union and was apparently referred to as a virgin birth.<br>
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I should say that my learned brother told me that, so as sources go, it's hardly solid stone.<br>
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I'm half-expecting to be told I'm off-topic quite soon. Been interesting though.<br>
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I should say that my learned brother told me that, so as sources go, it's hardly solid stone.<br>
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I'm half-expecting to be told I'm off-topic quite soon. Been interesting though.<br>
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Conn<br>
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