Re:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... nduct.html
"Eric Sprankle, an associate professor of clinical psychology and sexuality studies at Minnesota State University-Mankato,
accused God of sexual misconduct for impregnating Mary"
However, Joseph is truly the father of Mary's first child!
"Virgin birth" refers to the incarnation of a Divine Son along with the human Jesus
and, perhaps, that Mary was a virgin during this mysterious conception.
To wit (regarding Mary's first child):
"Gabriel appeared to Mary by the side of a low stone table and, after she had recovered her composure, said: 'I come at the bidding of one who is my Master and whom you shall love and nurture. To you, Mary, I bring glad tidings when I announce that the conception within you is ordained by heaven, and that in due time you will become the mother of a son; you shall call him Joshua, and he shall inaugurate the kingdom of heaven on earth ... And doubt not my word, Mary, for this home has been chosen as the mortal habitat of the child of destiny'" (122:3.1)
"Jesus derived much of his unusual gentleness and marvelous sympathetic understanding of human nature from his father; he inherited his gift as a great teacher and his tremendous capacity for righteous indignation from his mother. In emotional reactions to his adult-life environment, Jesus was at one time like his father, meditative and worshipful, sometimes characterized by apparent sadness; but more often he drove forward in the manner of his mother’s optimistic and determined disposition. All in all, Mary’s temperament tended to dominate the career of the divine Son as he grew up and swung into the momentous strides of his adult life. In some particulars Jesus was a blending of his parents’ traits; in other respects he exhibited the traits of one in contrast with those of the other." (122:5.3)
This Paper does not deny that Joseph was Jesus' father, simply confirming that Jesus would be both human and divine, an incarnated Creator Son on his final bestowal mission; the incarnation mystery forever remaining a secret of Sonarington:
"When a Son of God becomes a Son of Man, is literally born of woman, as occurred on your world nineteen hundred years ago, it is a universal mystery. It is occurring right along throughout the universes, and it is a Sonarington secret of divine sonship. The Adjusters are a mystery of God the Father. The incarnation of the divine Sons is a mystery of God the Son; a secret locked up in the seventh sector of Sonarington" (13:1.8 )
It seems reasonable to conjecture that those forces and beings required to raise Lazarus from the dead - with a healed body - are the same forces and beings that facilitated a virgin birth with Joseph still Jesus' biologic father.
Rod