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A SCEPTICAL ATHEISTIC BIBLE READING – THE GOSPELS – THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.

It’s astonishing that two of the Gospels, Mark and John, make no reference whatsoever to the mysterious, allegedly miraculous birth of Jesus. The Old Testament took great pride in exploring the origins of its great heroes, from Adam to Abraham, Isaac, Esau, and David.

It may therefore be that the conception of Jesus was less than extra-ordinary, possibly even a straight forward case of illegitimacy, or less likely, material written by John & Mark was lost from the records as handed down to us today. You would expect a virgin conception to be at least worth mentioning in passing.

As it stands, Matthew and Mark offer deeply conflicting accounts of the origins of the living God. Both offer painstaking bloodline evidence of Joseph’s linage, which don’t match one another and which are rendered irrelevant anyway as Joseph is not seen as being Jesus’ father anyway – God, in the form of the Holy Ghost, impregnates Mary, whose bloodline is not provided for us. Jesus has no link whatsoever to the Old Testament patriarchs, kings and prophets.

Six months after a woman called Elizabeth gets pregnant despite being barren, and carries the yet to be born John The Baptist, an even more bizarre pregnancy commences. A God is about to be conceived by a woman who remains a virgin. The archangel Gabriel goes (presumably by flight of wing) to Galilee and its major town, Nazareth. He calls on Mary, wife of Joseph, a descendent of the bloodline of King David.

Gabriel tells Mary what is expected of her, and even names Jesus for her. Mary seems quite perturbed, especially when told that the father will not be Joseph but the Holy Ghost.

We don’t see the ghost’s strange sexless invasion of Mary’s womb take place. We are just told it has happened. Mary is now carrying the unborn Messiah.

Luke makes no effort to show Joseph being told of all this. Matthew has Joseph told of Mary’s pregnancy by Gabriel. I suspect Mary trying to convince him that her act of adultery was not just with some mortal man would be less likely to succeed.

Joseph is not yet married to Mary in Matthew’s narrative, and now plans to marry her to spare her from disgrace and then get a quiet divorce from her later on. We are not told if he does so or not. By human standards however, Joseph is a lie – Jesus is illegitimate. If Joseph did divorce Mary later it is after they made love. (Matthew Verse 1-25) Mary was to give Jesus two brothers, James and Jude. Mary was not destined to stay virginal all her life. This is a statement from the Bible that the various Christian churches dumb down on. They try to suggest she was a virgin all her life – a basis for the whole virginal convent existence of Catholic nuns for example – all based on lies.

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