5th Commandment
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Thu, 21 Aug 1997 17:00:39 -0500 (CDT) (00872222439, 199708212200.RAA19684@cdale3.midwest.net)
BELL
There was no disregard shown to his parents but a making known to them of
his mission/vocation. As the last part of the verse says, '...and was
subject unto them.' No rebellious child there.
TILL
You mean that his parents, after all they had witnessed before and after
the birth of Jesus, still didn't know what his "mission/vocation" was?
They must have been pretty dense. I wonder why they were selected to be
the parents of Jesus.
MATT
Knowing and accepting are two different matters.
TILL
Oh, I see. An angel appeared to Mary and told her that she would have a son
by the Holy Spirit; she became pregnant, even though she was a virgin; an
angel appeared to Joseph and told him that Mary had conceived by the Holy
Spirit; when Mary went to visit Elizabeth (John the Baptist's mother),
Elizabeth prophesied, after which Mary also prophesied; when Mary gave birth
to her son, angels announced the birth to shepherds who went into Bethlehem
to visit the child; the wise men from the east were guided by a star to
visit Jesus and bring gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh; after the wise
men left, an angel warned Joseph to take the child and flee to Egypt, and
they fled to Egypt; before this, Jesus was taken to Jerusalem for his
mother's purification ceremony in the temple, at which time, Simeon, a
devout and righteous man, who was looking for the "consolation of Israel,"
prophesied upon seeing the infant Jesus; when Herod was dead, an angel
appeared to Joseph and told him that he should return home; when the family
was back in Palestine, Joseph was warned in a dream not to return to
Bethlehem but to go to Nazareth; but after all of these phenomenal
experiences, they just didn't "accept" that this child of theirs had a
special "mission/vocation"?
I wonder why I didn't figure that out?
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net