2006-12-07 12:49:59 · 19 answers · asked by Mr. Bad Day 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So it's all about prophesy? That's all?
2006-12-07 12:56:40 · update #1
For some Christians, Christianity would be invalidated if even so much as a comma were to be taken out of their Bible.
2006-12-07 12:55:13 · answer #1 · answered by sonyack 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I can't agree with you Danial H. Jesus not only had to be born of a virgin to fulfill prophesy but he had to be born of a virgin to complete the purpose of His being perfectly sinless - without spot or blemish. If He were not born of a virgin there would be no Christians because the people of that day would have always questioned whether or not Jesus was really the Son of God no matter what miracles He did or how He died on the cross. Everything about Jesus from His conception to His ascension is absolutely necessary for the remission of this worlds sins.
2006-12-07 12:59:11 · answer #2 · answered by CHARLA W 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO. Christianity is about God. Not Jesus the messenger. Jesus was an angel sent down in human form to inform the world of God's love and his message. Whether or not he was born of a virgin is just extra information. His message would still be sent. When the angel Gabriel appeared to the shepards he did not say "A child is born from a virgin in a stable in Bethlehem". He said "In a stable in Bethlehem the savior is born." The fact that he was born of a virgin was known to none outside of the family until the books of Matthew Mark Luke and John were published and translated (back then the printing press took alot of time and most peasants were illeterate.) The meaning of Christianity has nothing to do of how Jesus was born but the message in which he delivered.
2006-12-07 12:56:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most serious theologians don't believe he was actually born of a virgin, however, this does not invalidate the actual message of love he taught. If all of his followers followed his message rather than the religion created around him, the world would be a slightly better place, IMO.
You don't have to believe EVERY allegory in a religion. I don't seriously believe Thor was a red bearded man driving a wagon across the sky, but I do believe the underlying message of Asatru and live by it's values. That's what makes me an Asatruar. It's not the myths, it's the values.
~Morg~
2006-12-07 13:04:44 · answer #4 · answered by morgorond 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what Christians you ask.
To some the virginal birth is just as important as the immaculate one. But the whole "son of god" thing rests more on the fact that Jesus was born to no earthly father, not that Mary still had her cherry (I.E. Joseph could have been hitting it like the fist of an angry god, but as long as Jesus wasn't his biological son then it isn't invalidated).
2006-12-07 12:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by Lucifer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably.
Christianity is simply a type of reformed Judaism based on the belief that Jesus of Nazareth was the proclaimed Messiah (Christ). If He was not of a virgin birth He could not be Immanuel; however, if one believed that Immanuel and the Messiah were two different people then perhaps it would still be able to flourish.
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
2006-12-07 13:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by phoenix_slayer2001uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, but it's a moot point. He WAS born of a virgin. Otherwise, Mary would have been stoned, and He would not have had any followers...especially since out of the thirteen original disciples (once Judas had betrayed Jesus, and two had been chosen to take his place), only ONE died peacefully. The rest were brutally killed because they refused to recant.
2006-12-07 12:59:01 · answer #7 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the book of John it says:
1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Then in verse 14:
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
This tells us that the Son of God through whom all things were created came into the womb of Mary and was born the Son of Man, a term that Jesus used to describe himself.
Because of this Jesus was fully man and fully God.
Were he not virgin born, he could not have been both fully man and fully God.
The claim that the Son of God created all things is found in more places than in John.
Hebrews begins with these words:
1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Grace and peace
2006-12-07 13:20:45 · answer #8 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If he were not born of a virgin then he would not have fulfilled that prophesy in regards to being the messiah. However, his teachings would be no less relevant.
2006-12-07 12:53:00 · answer #9 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it was claimed he never sinned. Psalm 51:5 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me. This was King David describing the nature in which we come into the world. So it is necessary for the virgin birth.
2006-12-07 12:55:30 · answer #10 · answered by Eric G 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋