Christian Missionary Role In India - 6

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All converts newly burdened as apologists for the criminal church should read Dr. Koenraad Elst's online book: http://www.voiceofdharma.org/books/pp/

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Jesus had, on all hands, a problem with the identity of his father.  In the apocrypha, he is called “son of a whore”.<b>  According to the Jewish tradition, he was the son of the Roman soldier Pandera and the local girl Miriam (Mary), the hairdresser.  </b><b>The existence of a Roman soldier with that name has actually been verified.  </b>A few years after the start of the Christian Era, he was transferred to the legion in Germany, where a grave bearing his name has been found: perhaps the only left-over of the Holy Family.  At any rate, the Gospel narrative is explicit enough that Jesus’ conception was a matter of scandal: his social father Joseph wanted to break off his engagement with Mary when he found she was pregnant. In a village, such a circumstance could not possibly be kept secret from the child Jesus.  In the playground he must have been reminded often enough of being an illegitimate child.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->