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| JOSEPH-2 ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES | |||||||||||||||
| {Where document name is cited first, it is quoted.} | |||||||||||||||
| 1.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:24 -� Then Joseph...did exactly what God's angel commanded in the dream:� He married Mary. | |||||||||||||||
| 2. �DOES GOD EXIST? VOL. 21, NO. 2, P. 3 - ...the design of [a bird] egg itself.� Here is an object which is fragile enough that the chick can peck its way free when its development time is over, yet strong enough that the adult bird can cover it with its body to incubate it.� Here is an object that will not allow contaminants to penetrate to the chick and yet allows oxygen in and waste products and carbon dioxide out. | |||||||||||||||
| 3.� DOES GOD EXIST? VOL. 20, NO. 1, pp. 11-13 - If someone says 'there is no absolute truth' then what he has just said becomes an absolute truth....Without a superior Creator to give the universe a meaning....all would be an endless recycling of energy and matter....If the universe had no meaning then it would never occur to itself that it did or should have one.� Indeed it seems reasonable that the concept of meaning or purpose would not even exist....The very fear that God does not exist is an indicator that he does and that he created us. | |||||||||||||||
| 4. �People were not called Christians until long after Jesus died.� (See THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:9, 11:26) This expression is inserted to put across the stinging words with which sometimes even relatively good people bite each other. | |||||||||||||||
| 5.� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 53:3 - We despised him and rejected him - a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief.� We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by.� He was despised and we didn't care. | |||||||||||||||
| 6.� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 53:7a - He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he never said a word. | |||||||||||||||
| 7. �The time necessary to travel by foot is based on twenty miles per day for a healthy male, and ten miles per day for people with children or animals or someone who is ill. | |||||||||||||||
| 8.� LUKE 2:1-3 -� About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire.� This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria.� Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for | |||||||||||||||
| 9.� JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, Bk 8, 1:1 (Written about 100 A.D) -� Now Cyrenius [Quirinius]...being sent by Caesar to be a judge of that nation [Syria]....came himself into Judea...but the Jews, although at the beginning they took the report of a taxation heinously, yet did they leave off any further opposition to it.� [This took place when Jesus was 12, but verifies Quirinius' power to tax.] | |||||||||||||||
| 10.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:4-5 - So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David's town, for the census.� As a descendant of David, he had to go there.� He went with Mary, his fiance, who was pregnant. | |||||||||||||||
| 11.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:6 - While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. | |||||||||||||||
| 12.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 2:7b - There was no room in the hostel.� [Notice, "the" hostel.� There was only one hotel in town.] | |||||||||||||||
| 13.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:25 - But he did not consummate the marriage until she had the baby.� He named the baby Jesus. | |||||||||||||||
| 14.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 2:7 - She gave birth to a son, her firstborn.� She wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in a manger. | |||||||||||||||
| 15.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 2:1, 9b - After Jesus was born in Bethlehem village, Judah territory - this was during Herod's kingship - a band of scholars arrived in Jerusalem from the East....Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen [while in the East]. | |||||||||||||||
| 16.� Caesar's Gallic Wars was written 50-58 BC, yet the oldest manuscript we have today was written 900 years after Caesar and there are only ten copies.� But no one doubts Caesar's writings.� | |||||||||||||||
| The New Testament of the Bible was completed by 100 AD, and the oldest complete manuscript we have today was written 250 years after Christ and some fragments were written the same century as the apostles.� There are 15,300 copies in Greek and Latin, and another 24,000 in other ancient languages. | |||||||||||||||
| 17.� THE BIBLE, MICAH 5:2 (Predicted about 685 years before Jesus) -� O Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are but a small Judean village, yet you will be the birthplace of my King who is alive from everlasting ages past! | |||||||||||||||
| 18.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 2:11 - They entered the house [not barn] and saw the child in the arms of Mary, his mother.� Overcome, they kneeled and worshiped him.� Then they opened their luggage and presented gifts:� gold, frankincense, myrrh. | |||||||||||||||