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Originally Posted by NoSoup
Too bad Joseph, the adoptive father of Jesus wasn't there - wouldn't it be interesting if Jesus shared his DNA with the "Virgin" Mary and his "adoptive" father Joseph?
Although I suppose, one could argue that God simply used the DNA of Joseph because he knew that one day Joseph and Mary would be married...
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Some scholars read the early passages as a young woman, or young virgin, not that she remained a virgin through immaculate conception...that's a gift from Roman Catholicism. So it'd be perfectly possible and acceptable that he have Joseph's DNA.
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