If you don't believe Jesus to be God in the flesh?

Question

than do you believe he died on the cross for our sins? Also what does the virgin mary's birth mean to you? If he was a prophet than why didn't God just go about this like all the other prophets (sex between two people). Does that mean you believe that mary slept with joseph?

this is a serious question, I am just confused on what you believe.

Answer 1

The HOLY SPIRIT, GOD/JESUS, fertilized the egg. Mary was a mere human, she called herself the servant of the LORD. The Bible says she had sex after Christ was born(mat 1:24) Remember, after Jesus died HE rose HIMSELF from the grave. When Mary died she stayed dead.

Answer 2

Jesus did not need to be "God in the Flesh" to die for our sins. Adam was a perfect man. His death cost us the gift of everlasting life. God's pefect justice required that another perfect human balance the scales and prove Satan a liar. He sent his only begotten son to be born on earth AS that perfect human to accomplish his will on our behalf.

Some food for thought: If Jesus had been God in the flesh, who would have been in heaven to resurrect him and to sit at whose right hand? If the idea of a the Trinity was so important, why is there no record of this teaching being spread by his disciples? Why does the Catholic Encyclopedia itself say it did not become part of church teaching until the 4th century?

Answer 3

It is likely but not proven that Jesus existed, most of what Christians present as proof is indication that he did but not compelling evidence i.e. like the recent find of a stone inscription confirming Pilate. The gospels, at best are second hand accounts and thus are rather dubious sources of trustworthy information. If we accept that Jesus existed, there is still no evidence that Mary was actually a virgin or that there were reliable methods to determine if she was.

Answer 4

Yes. Lambs died as sacrifices too but they weren't God either. Same idea.

Virgin meant young girl in the original language, not necessarily someone who didn't have sex though that could be the case. Either way she was impregnated by something. She did have other children and grew old so she wasn't a virgin for long in either case.

I think he was more than a prophet.

She did eventually.

Answer 5

No I don't believe he died for our sins and the virgin birth means nothing as it didn't happen.and if they existed I hope mary slept with joseph,it would have been a pretty strange marriage otherwise.

Answer 6

-I'm gnostic
Jesus is a god in the flesh such as you and i you will have many beliefs in life reg lion to choose from you got to find the path for your self as to what you want to believe you got many to choose from everybody has there own path
to a Gnostic in gen 2 :7 when given breath you become a living spirit that breath you need each minute or die whom does the breath come from --oh god -a mystical god right him in you Thur the breath your flesh you are part of the creator making you a god the children of the creator we may not be as power full but we are gods to. my believe is that yes Mary Magellan and Jesus did have children and there are children of that blood line today

Answer 7

If Jesus is God in the flesh, and Jesus died on the cross, then doesn't that mean God is dead?

Answer 8

I believe that we are very fortunate primates who, through the process of evolution, developed the capacity for language and all the related mental skills that went with it.

Answer 9

I doubt there was a historical Jesus at all, but if there was, he was an ordinary human who may have gotten himself killed by Rome.

Answer 10

I believe there never were any rules.