Sounds like an ancient heresy.

I am sorry you bought this story. Jesus’s father was not Roman. Ceasar and other Romans would not have let Pontius Pilate or any other Romans’ Crucify him and Romans would not have mingled with a Jew. Yes Jesus was perhaps taller then Joseph’s siblings but they were not blood brothers to Jesus. They were older and belonged to Joseph from a previous marriage in which his wife had died. Jospeh is said to be older than Mary who in her mid teens at the Time God called Mary to sacrifice herself for Jesus’s sake. I suggest you take a deeper look at where you are getting your history.

Not true. The Jewish people are always God’s Chosen that never stops. What planet have you been on? you are not Jewish or Catholic. Maybe some fallen Protestant distant faith not one of the early 1st century faiths. Sorry Protestants I just said that because you come on the scene much later in Religious History

Frank you miss a big part of the story and you put things in a wrong order. Re Read this story and you will see that Zachariah had been a long time High Priest in the Temple and his wife could not have a child. Yes he is married to Elizabeth Mary’s cousin. He become dumb and couldn’t speak at the Temple. Because He didn’t Believe that his wife could get pregnant. For this reason God took away his speach. Then mary shows up to help her cousin get through her pregnancy. Mary had already been confronted by Gabriel. Mary tried to tell Joseph what the Angel had told her. But like most men would not believe it and was embarrassed until the angel comes to Joseph and explains that it is ok for him to believe mary. When Mary returns home Joseph is now on board because he heard God speak to him through the angel and all is good. Zachariah gets his speech back when John the Baptist is born. Watch the movie the Chosen it does a good job of teaching the order of things and it follows Scripture also. The Ten Commandment Movie and Jesus Christ Super Star along with the Passion of Christ are also good movies if you don’t like reading.

Excuse me Satan. Only you are dumb enough to think all your tricks and words could sway people away from God. God is the supreme being who created everything we have and who we are. No one else could possibly do this. All we do is rearrange the cells to make them do other things. But we start with the same cells God created in the beginning.
On the contrary we do not think of ourselves as so important to devise a God to control us. God has always been there. God does the creation we are his followers and are thankful for all He gives us. Apparently you have lost a gene or 2 because you act as though you have nothing to be thankful for and seem to believe you are in control. I would not want to be standing next to you at the pearly gates when you get the news the world does not revolve around you. Good Luck. Perhaps you might come to your senses before then and realize that the Devil has been playing tricks on you. Maybe see you in the next life. If you figure it out by then.

You don’t even know that you crossed family ties to create a false story. You can’t be Roman and be a Decendant of David. It was a Catholic Pope who declared this and He may have declared that Augustus was falsely stated as the Father of Jesus. England did not accept the teachings of the Catholic Church when Henry the 8th was in power because he was rejected for his adulterous ways. I think you need to reread your church history. You are into heresy my dear friend. Other people did not make him the Messiah He came from God as the Messiah. There were false Messiah’s running around Jerusalem but Jesus was not one of them. He knew his mission when he entered the proper adult time on earth. Then he began preaching his mission. John the Baptist had been preaching repentance before the Messiah came and during a baptism in galilee he announced the Messiah to the crowd. God hovered over Jesus and said this is my beloved son. etc.

Yes many of us walk by Faith . Yet if you will begin to notice Science has started finding archeological digs and things to begin to support small issues over the years to supper my belief and I can see that some of us can rest in knowing we believed before the evidence was present. That doesn’t make us any better then you or anyone else but it makes me smile to know God lets me know I am on the right track and it feels nice to have that affirmed even in small ways.

I don’t know where you got this false Heresy. But Jesus did not fight with his cousin and John did not leave Jesus/ He just continued His preaching that the savior had come down from Heaven. Also He was killed because He challenged King Herrod for stealing Herrod brothers ‘ wife. And that is what got him killed. He died in faith to Christ. Jesus never intended to marry or raise a human family. His family was operating as the son of God and the founder of the church. It was first called the Way and in 50 A.D. a Father of the church referred to it as the Catholic Church when he was speaking of it’s Universality and it has been called the Catholic Church ever since then. It was begun with 12 apostles. Judas was replaced after his death when he hung himself for not believing in what Christ meant leading up to the crucifixion. Wherever you got that false information is beyond me. Mary loved her cousin and left to return to Nazareth so she could be with Joseph when she would bring the Christ child into the world. She was never jealous of her cousin. She went to help her cousin because her cousin was older and Mary felt she could help her get through the birthing process as most back then used midwives. What you quotes is very much off track from all bibles and has nothing to do with Truth. Her cousin Elizabeth’s husband Zacheriah worked at the Temple but he lost his voice because God said he would not speak until John the Baptist (his child would be born). This was his punishment for his lack to believe his wife would have a child because God said so. Her age had nothing to do with whether she would conceive and God had to prove that to Zechariah.

As a guest an apparently a nonbeliever who makes bold statements and supposedly believes what you say why do you not believe so much and put your name out for people to address. As a nonbeliever you obviously have not received the gift of faith, or you couldn’t make such bold statements. There has been archeological evidence to the contrary of your statements. Shrouds have been produced and scientific test done to show Jesus was about 5 ft. 10 in. Dark brown Hair, eyes of blue etc.
They have found sees that can only compare to Jerusalem on the shroud. When the shroud was repaired from being in a fire the edge material was replaced and that material did not match the time of Christ but when they took a sample deeper into the material it did date back to the time of Christ. They found DNA and said that it matched from several other things they have tested. No matter what a believer finds will never convince a nonbeliever and create a faith for you. But others are reading and this makes a difference for them and that is why I counter back. Rome has collections of artifacts from different things of the time of Christ. While many churches have formed over the centuries Yes the faith has splintered and many false beliefs have surfaced. But the Catholic church and from what I can tell the trueness of the Jewish Faith stands firm with Oral and Written truths. They have been tremendous in storing and Keeping records back to the beginning of their Religions. The protestants are the ones who waver. Not trying to pick on you guys but you need to look at reality. When the person who formed your denomination brought it forward He or She began with what they believed and seperated from former Protestant Faiths so they could practice their new belief. Even Martin Luther was a former Catholic who differed from the Catholic Church and eliminated things that He did not accept from the Catholic Church. But the Jewish Faith and the Catholic Church teachings remain basically the same. When they make changes it is not on the main doctrines. The Catholics have held council to test and prove what they believe and the Jewish Rabbi’s continue to explain what they believe in written commentaries. One cannot look at a very old faith and explain it with only modern thoughts. To do a proper exegesis one needs to understand the wording and practices of the time it was written and look at what was meant during that time. This is where Protestants fall in era. Jews and Catholics alike realize that Tradition carries as much weight as the words of God. God’s words created the Universe and the Oral and Written Tradition back it up. Yes the Bible is God’s words but the Tradition that supports this is very valuable as well. So when Jesus says this is my Body and this is my blood He is telling the world that He took the place of the Sacrificial lamb because He knew the Temple would be destroyed and He would serve to God as the bloody sacrifice and that people of the future would be consuming him and be fed Spiritually. The sacrifices people need to make is from themselves to pray to God for His forgiveness and attend the confession sacrament He gave to the Apostles so that they could have a way to feel connected to him. Anyone can say I am going on a diet and cheat and never accomplish it. But when you are forced to tell someone then this makes you accountable and most people follow through with making a change in their life. Jesus will come back for all of us but until we all reunite and learn to get along. Then indirectly will there be a need for the Temple to be built which is where we all will celebrate together in peace.

Even Joseph receives a message from an angel in his sleep that Mary has not messed around on him and that God has called her to give birth to his son. God wants Joseph to become Jesus’s step father. God is trying to keep this a Holy way to bring Jesus to the earth through Mary.
This all set right through an angel of the Lord who appears to both of them.