Jack Schaap Exposed

[TruthSeeker]

Jack Schaap pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond has his own version of Joseph and Mary. This is what he said in a recent sermon:

Independent Baptist pastor Jack Schaap has his own version of events of which he is just as certain. You were probably not aware that Mary was an old woman--an old maid, and Joseph was a broken down old man. ‘Extra-biblical readings tells us that Joseph died at 110,’ Schaap says. Mary and Joseph thought they’d never get married and were lucky to find each other. Joseph had been looked over by a lot of girls. ... he lived in a shack’; he was ‘a nobody who was looking for anybody, and he found her....Mary.’ She ‘might not have been the catch of the year’; she was ‘one of those unclaimed blessings ... middle aged, wrinkled, stoop shouldered, hair falling out.’ You doubt this version of the story? ‘Facts are funny things,’ Schaap counters. Deuteronomy 4:2; Proverbs 30:5,6 and Revelation 22:18 are serious warnings about adding to God’s word, and providing mythical embellishments in sermons should be taken very seriously. With Christmas myths abounding, let those of us who love the Lord and his Word cling close to the Bible and not forsake the plain truths we find there.”

A bizarre fictional account of an aged Joseph and an old and homely Mary.