She also could have been the victim of rape and Joseph trying to protect her, instead of her being a cheater and Joseph being dumb. If they both did exist of course.
She could also have been a hotwife and he could have been a cuckold. The possibilities are endless.
What's impossible is the holy ghost impregnating her.
Maybe that's what the rapist called himself?
"Which is more likely — that the whole natural order is to be suspended, or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?" - Christopher Hitchens
The thing is, the earliest versions of the gospels didn't contain a nativity story at all, instead starting with Jesus' baptism. The whole "virgin birth" thing was retconned in after the religion was already up and running.
To be fair if picking the first option meant getting stoned to death for adultery, I would try my luck at the second option too.
Absolute gold
Surprisingly, there is such a thing as virgin births. They're super rare, but also not a miracle.
“Yes, (…) [but] the chances of these all happening in real life are virtually zero.”
“(…) one of her eggs would have to produce, on its own, the biochemical changes indicative of fertilization, and then divide abnormally to compensate for the lack of sperm DNA.“
this is interesting. Thank you
...hey Joseph. Yeah. You know how we never have sex? YEAH! Well an angel came to me and I'm pregnant. JESUS CHRIST! Oh you already know about it!
I guess the pilgrims must have been on the good shit to not see the cap.
But wait. Assuming this isn’t Flortucky, how’s a 12-year-old pregnant person have the ability to consent to:
- choose to marry
- marry
- sex
- cheat, and then
- sex again?
Mary was not married though.
