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Okay, I just found out that historically Mary was between fourteen and fiteen yo when the archangel Gabriel gave her the pregnancy news. My whole Jesus is somewhat real on Good Omens so how did THAT conversation went made me actually more curious now because it's not only Good Omens Gabriel gives bonkers news to a human but Good Omens Gabriel gives bonkers news to a teenager.

#mary being a teen when she got magically pregnant is uncomfortable af but it was also normal for the time period #and while some christian schoolars will try to sell the image of Joseph being an old man to explain away Jesus potential sibblings +#and mantain Mary as an eternal virgin #and while some weird conservatives will also use it to say the bibble defends this type of marriage #this isn't the case #there is no reference in the bibble itself of their ages or of a age gap #so based on context clues is likely they just followed the normal marriage rules at the time #this means their engament would have been made by their parents when Mary was between the ages 12-14 #and they would meet and marry when she was 15-16 and he was 18-20 #still an age gap but not a overly creepy one #the other explanation to jesus sibblings used to keep mary an eternal virgin is that it was a misstranslation as sibblings and cousins +#i don't remenber if the langague in question was old hebrew greek or latin because I heard it from my comunity preacher as a kid #before I bailed catholicism #mother mary #good omens #gabriel good omens

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