Who was Joseph, father of Christ's father?
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Two explanations exist - both reasonings seem plausible to me - and both were discussed ad nauseum in my seminary classes on the Gospels...\n\na) St. Matthew's genealogy is that of St. Joseph; St. Luke's, that of the Blessed Virgin. This contention implies that St. Luke's genealogy only seemingly includes the name of Joseph. It is based on the received Greek text, on (os enomizeto ouios Ioseph) tou Heli, "being the son (as it was supposed, of Joseph, but really) of Heli". This parenthesis really eliminates the name of Joseph from St. Luke's genealogy, and makes Christ, by means of the Blessed Virgin, directly a son of Heli. This view is supported by a tradition which names the father of the Blessed Virgin "Joachim", a variant form of Eliacim or its abbreviation Eli, a variant of Heli, which latter is the form found in the Third Evangelist's genealogy. But these two consideration, viz. the received text and the traditional name of the father of Mary, which favour the view that St. Luke gives the genealogy of the Blessed Virgin, are offset by two similar considerations, which make St. Luke's list terminate with the name of Joseph. First, the Greek text preferred by the textual critics reads, on ouios, hos enomizeto, Ioseph tou Heli, "being the son, as it was supposed, of Joseph, son of Heli", so that the above parenthesis is rendered less probable. Secondly, according to Patrizi, the view that St. Luke gives the genealogy of Mary began to be advocated only towards the end of the fifteenth century by Annius of Viterbo, and acquired adherents in the sixteenth. St. Hilary mentions the opinion as adopted by many, but he himself rejects it (Mai, "Nov. Bibl, Patr.", t. I, 477). It may be safely said that patristic tradition does not regard St. Luke's list as representing the genealogy of the Blessed Virgin. \n\n(b) Both St. Matthew and St. Luke give the genealogy of St. Joseph, the one through the lineage of Solomon, the other through that of Nathan. But how can the lines converge in St. Joseph? St. Augustine suggested that Joseph, the son of Jacob and the descendant of David through Solomon, might have been adopted by Heli, thus becoming the adoptive descendant of David through Nathan. But Augustine was the first to abandon this theory after learning the explanation offered by Julius Africanus. According to the latter, Estha married Mathan, a descendant of David through Solomon, and became the mother of Jacob; after Mathan's death she took for her second husband Mathat, a descendent of David through Nathan, and by him became the mother of Heli. Jacob and Heli were, therefore, uterine brothers. Heli married, but died without offspring; his widow, therefore, became the levirate wife of Jacob, and gave birth to Joseph, who was the carnal son of Jacob, but the legal son of Heli, thus combining in his person two lineages of David's descendants.
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Before God spoke to Joseph in a dream, Joseph had only three choices.\n\n1. Marry a woman who he thought got pregnant by another man. Joseph, being a just man, could not live with this perceived betrayal. \n\n2. Expose Mary publicly and have her stoned to death. It was considered adultery even though they were only engaged.\n\n3. Put her away quietly. People would assume that the child was not his but Mary would not be stoned to death. This was the lesser of three evils.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Jesus of Nazareth. He offered me salvation!
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God is real.  He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, so He has no mom and dad (except for Jesus whos mom is The Virgin Mary, but He is still His dad - though St. Joseph was his step-Father)
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Here are a few websites that will help you!\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/joseph.html\nhttp://www.addagirl.com/joseph.htm
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NOPE HE IS NOT THE SON OF MAN.. JESUS WAS JUST A JEWISH GUY THAT RAN AROUND DOING TORAH TEACHINGS AND WAS GREATLY MISUNDERSTOOD.
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My God is YHWH, the Almighty.  He is the Father of Abraham, and Jesus is His Son.  I believe this because Jesus claimed to be God, and He proved His claim by coming back to life 3 days after being crucified.
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God the Father has no father on the other hand God the son[Jesus] his father is God.
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Jesus was a human being.  His divinity was bestowed upon him by the Catholic Church about 400 years after he died.
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Joseph was a servant to Potiphar. Potiphar's wife accused Joseph of trying to seduce her (she was trying to seduce him)and Potiphar put Joseph in prison\n\nJoseph's sons were called Manasseh and Ephraim\n\ngood luck with the test!
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Jews! Jesus was a Jew. \nChristianity came from a mix of Judiasm and Paganism...
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father, son, holy spirit
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Jesus Christ of Nazareth
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No. The only way to the Father is through Jesus. You can't circumvent Jesus like that.
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Joseph’s Prospects\n\nThe Scriptures are silent about the death of Joseph. But it is noteworthy that Mark 6:3 called Jesus “the son of Mary,” not Joseph. This indicates that Joseph was then dead. Moreover, if Joseph had lived until 33 C.E., it is unlikely that the impaled Jesus would have entrusted Mary to the care of the apostle John.—John 19:26, 27.\n\nJoseph, then, will be among the dead who will hear the voice of the Son of man and come forth in a resurrection. (John 5:28, 29) Learning of Jehovah’s provision for eternal life, undoubtedly Joseph will gladly avail himself of it and will be an obedient subject of the great heavenly King, Jesus Christ, even as he heeded divine direction over 1,900 years ago.\n\nStop & think, if Joseph went to Heaven when he passed away in death, then why do we speak of the Resurrection that is suppose to take place after Jesus comes again, in other words, if you go to Heaven or Hell when you die, you have nullified the Resurrection and have  made the Scriptures to be nothing but a lie.  Not only that, but the Heavenly Hope did not come about until after Jesus died and ascended to Heaven.\n\n4000 years had come and gone since Adam & Eve's creation and what did Jesus say about anyone going to Heaven:  \n\nJohn 3:13  Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man\n\nOut of all of the millions of people that had lived & died before Jesus came, none of them had & immortal soul, none of them went to Heaven.\n\nJesus described death as being in a deep sleep, so Joseph is sleeping & will be resurrected sometime in the future.\n\n
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in arabic he is the father of the virgin Mary
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JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD