Ya know, when it's mentioned, every story I've seen talks about Moore asking the mother's permission, never the father's.
Is that an Alabama thing?
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I'd laugh harder if I didn't think it'd guarantee a worse grammar fail of my own.
Checking my memory just now, in the earliest gospel, Mark, there's an indirect reference to Mary in chapter 3, and a direct reference in chapter 6, and that's it. The direct reference says nothing about their personal relationship while the indirect reference is clearly intended to put distance between them in favor of his followers.
When the latest gospel, John, was written, the very last thing Jesus' did before his vinegar and death was take care of his mother, handing her off to the apostle he loved, but apparently not enough to get his biographers to name him for us.
Still, at face value, I'd say this is a clear indication that Mary had no actual children to take care of her in her old age.
I suspect many if not most of the gospel stories not found in Mark accreted over time in the interest of buttressing some now-obscure social argument entailed in the developing theology. In that context, the last mention in John was added as an argument for perpetual virginity in response to these cultural concerns.
Of course, it also mirrors the earliest reference in Mark by favoring the apostles over Jesus' family, and here I'm thinking specifically of his brother James.
Is that an Alabama thing?
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig
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Originally posted by Adrift
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When the latest gospel, John, was written, the very last thing Jesus' did before his vinegar and death was take care of his mother, handing her off to the apostle he loved, but apparently not enough to get his biographers to name him for us.
Still, at face value, I'd say this is a clear indication that Mary had no actual children to take care of her in her old age.
I suspect many if not most of the gospel stories not found in Mark accreted over time in the interest of buttressing some now-obscure social argument entailed in the developing theology. In that context, the last mention in John was added as an argument for perpetual virginity in response to these cultural concerns.
Of course, it also mirrors the earliest reference in Mark by favoring the apostles over Jesus' family, and here I'm thinking specifically of his brother James.
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