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What became of the families of the disciples who followed Jesus?
Bom Diddly Wo
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At the risk of being accused of "Christian bashing" I thought I'd ask what people thought. Most of them must have had wives and children. I don't think there were many unmarried adults around then so how did their wives and children survive when their men folk went off to follow Jesus. It's all very well being a fisher of men but does it pay the rent?
Did perhaps the disciples take their whole families with them creating a whole entourage of followers?
Did perhaps the disciples take their whole families with them creating a whole entourage of followers?
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A life of poverty, misery and torture.
Who was Cowdenbeath? Another prophet?
I doubt they have made a profit in years
They gave up everything to follow christ.
He was only a zombie for 3 days. The disciples followed him around for a couple of years.
Looking at the devastation left by 28 days later I don't think 3 days for a few disciple relatives would be too arduous.
I think these ones, were at least real. perhaps a lot of people in the bible were not. But I'm pretty sure that the deciples existed.
Who did? The disciples or their families? If the disciples gave up their families to follow Jesus then what stopped their families from starving or falling into poverty because their husbands had gone away?
I believe some of them fleeced the taxpayer so much they had enough for a couple of weeks a year sunning themselves and swimming with dolphins in Eilat :eek: :mad:
I don't know. People didn't live very long in these days, maybe they died of naturual cuases. or maybe that's just what Jesus told everyone.
Considering the times I think it highly likely that most of them will have had families and dependants. They were all strong young men who would have been prime working units and probably the main bread winner in what was probably a large extended family. They would have been very economicaly valuable to their family and I wonder how the families coped without them. It must have put them at a great disadvantage.
I am.
The families did not travel with them. perhaps jesus gave each of them a magic bag of grain to give to their families, which would replenish itself.
I admit it's highly likely but i;m not good enough a theologian to know for sure. Heck I can't even remember all twelve of their names.
Yes but you dont believe in an invisible God that can listen to our thoughts and made the universe though?
Belief in such a God is fairly common amongst Christians, yes.
The bible itself says people lived to be 70 so they weren't dieing all that young.
If there is no rational explaination for how they provided for their families then it would seem to cast some doubt about the accepted image we have of how they all operated together. I can't imagine that they would just leave their families to their fate which is why I wonder if jesus's group was something more akin to a traveling commune consisting of many people from the disciples families and extended families. Like a traveling circus but with preaching not acrobatics.