we must have an answer by now. i'm sure there are intelligent folks out there with an answer.
2006-12-09 08:44:11 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You work for the National Enquirer don't you?
2006-12-09 08:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scriptures talk about a virgin birth because it validates Jesus as fulfilling some prophecies in the old testament (Isaiah, I believe). Modern people want to deny this claim, perhaps for the purposes of disproving the theory that Jesus was indeed the Messiah of the Jews.
Still, it's a matter of history just like any other. The further we are away from it, the harder it is to know for sure. The lense continues to darken as we move forward.
2006-12-09 16:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by Link Correon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A cover up? Who benefited? What are you talking about?
The stories we have in Luke and Matthew were added later by early Jesus followers to enhance the status of the man they loved so much. As the scholar John Dominic Crossan pointed out somewhere, people wouldn't have known about Jesus early life before he got famous. So everything before he was a man is pious fiction. (This isn't an unusual case. People created stories about the early lives of other religious figures like the Buddha, Lao Tse, and Mohammad.)
2006-12-09 16:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's way too late to answer a question pertaining to an event so long ago. It would be like asking what happened to the dinosaurs. All we have are theories and assumptions; no proof. For that matter, how much proof does one need to believe it to be true?
2006-12-12 11:36:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For about 1800 out of the last 2000 years the bible said that Mary was a your girl. For about the last 200 years they decided that it said she was a young virgin. It made better copy.
2006-12-09 16:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As I understand it, Christ was originally born of a stone and Mary did not enter the story until the 13th century when the Christians wanted to convert the French - who simply had too strong a mother figure in their faith that a blessed virgin was added just for them. That's how I heard it.
Peace!
2006-12-09 16:47:12 · answer #6 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your second question assumes an answer to the first question. My first answer eliminates the need for the second question. Your request for answers from "intelligent folks" is an additional attempt at manipulation, by implying that any one disagreeing with you is not very smart. Oh! I suppose you're smart enough to know that I answered you questions.......
2006-12-09 16:53:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was not a cover-up, though the truth was indeed covered up. It is a fancy story to make the birth of Jesus seem more miraculous.
2006-12-09 16:48:12 · answer #8 · answered by Maitreya 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was not because Mary, as well as, jesus never existed as physical persons, mary is the zodiac sign of virgo while jesus is the sun that passes through the 12 signs of the zodiac
2006-12-09 16:47:47 · answer #9 · answered by Makaveli007 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was no cover up. It was solid Biblical proof that Jesus was born from the virgin Mary.
2006-12-09 16:47:18 · answer #10 · answered by spikey200maximum 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a cover-up. Joseph claimed to be the father when he wasn't. Had Mary's conception been made public, she would have been stoned to death for fornication.
2006-12-09 16:47:02 · answer #11 · answered by Draco Paladin 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋