{"id":917,"date":"2023-01-25T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T08:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/?page_id=917"},"modified":"2023-02-22T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:06:00","slug":"cultural-limitation-possible-slavery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/jesus-apparent-knowledge-and-his-cultural-limitations\/cultural-limitation-possible-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Limitation Possible Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"917\" class=\"elementor elementor-917\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6ee099e elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"6ee099e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-67d3c6e\" data-id=\"67d3c6e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fac479e elementor-widget elementor-widget-xpro-heading\" data-id=\"fac479e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"xpro-heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"xpro-heading-wrapper xpro-simple-heading-wrapper\">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"xpro-heading-title\"> Cultural Limitation<\/h1><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80b3aa3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-xpro-heading\" data-id=\"80b3aa3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"xpro-heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"xpro-heading-wrapper xpro-simple-heading-wrapper\">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"xpro-heading-title\"> Possible Slavery<\/h1><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ade11d1 bold_to_medium elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ade11d1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5bd4d0a\" data-id=\"5bd4d0a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e46cae2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e46cae2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.1 - 17-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><em><strong>A careful researcher must note that there is evidence that Jesus\u2019s mother was a slave, and that Jesus was therefore born into slavery and He was a slave until the age of thirty.<\/strong><\/em> Slavery was ubiquitous in the time and place where Jesus lived, and this evidence so strongly fits the details of Jesus\u2019s life that I have come to accept it as likely true. But for many, the very idea is so repellent that I leave it up to you to decide. Here is some of the evidence:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Mary identifies herself as a slave-girl to the Archangel Gabriel<\/strong>. She uses the female version of a Greek word which is translated as \u201cslave\u201d when it is used for a male.<\/li><li><em><strong>A mere stable is considered to be sufficient shelter for a woman who is about to give birth<\/strong><\/em>. We think the \u201cno room in the Inn\u201d story of Jesus\u2019s birth is charming, but in fact it is a sign of Mary\u2019s low status, especially in view of her late-state pregnancy.<\/li><li><em><strong>Joseph may not have married Mary<\/strong><\/em>. Jesus from the cross asks His Apostle, John, to look after His mother (see JN 19:27), so we know that Jesus is not certain that his father will care for his mother after His death. As indeed apparently Joseph does not care for her, according to a close reading of the Gospel of Luke.<\/li><li><em><strong>As an observant Jew, Jesus should have married in His teens, but oddly this seems not to have happened<\/strong><\/em>. But if Mary was a slave, by law her Son would have been born into slavery Himself, and perhaps He could not have married until He was emancipated.<\/li><li><em><strong>A decree by the Roman Emperor Augustus in the year 4 CE granted those born into slavery their freedom at the age of thirty.<\/strong><\/em> This adequately explains what are called Jesus\u2019s \u201clost years,\u201d when He would have been a slave carpenter working for His father, and it tells us why Jesus did not begin His public ministry until the age of thirty.<\/li><li><em><strong>The Lost Years<\/strong><\/em>. It is odd and much too coincidental that Jesus began His public ministry precisely at the age of thirty, and not sooner. As the Son of God, Jesus had no need to travel and learn anything from gurus in Nepal.<\/li><li><em><strong>Jesus was oddly despised by His homefolk for speaking with authority at the start of His ministry<\/strong><\/em>. When Jesus read Isaiah\u2019s prophesy of the coming of the Messiah in His home synagogue in Nazareth soon after He was baptized by John the Baptist, and He followed it by saying, \u201c<em><strong>Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d they said, \u201cIs this not Joseph\u2019s son?\u201d and they were so enraged by what He had just said that they tried to throw Him off a cliff (see LK 4:14-30). A presumptuous local boy who had only lately been a slave might inspire such rage, but surely nothing less!<\/li><\/ul><p><em><strong>We all plan our lives on earth<\/strong><\/em>. And so did Jesus. He planned a life as the poorest of the poor, and in that time and place that may well have meant that Jesus chose to be born a slave so He could better observe and understand how people in that condition were treated by those above them in rank. And God could then have influenced the Emperor Augustus to decree the necessary emancipation in time for Jesus to begin His teaching career when He was thirty. Who knows?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural Limitation Possible Slavery A careful researcher must note that there is evidence that Jesus\u2019s mother was a slave, and that Jesus was therefore born into slavery and He was a slave until the age of thirty. Slavery was ubiquitous in the time and place where Jesus lived, and this evidence so strongly fits the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/jesus-apparent-knowledge-and-his-cultural-limitations\/cultural-limitation-possible-slavery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cultural Limitation Possible Slavery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":677,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions\/2817"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingsbyjesus.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}