Or is the whole miraculous Jesus concept merely cemented by a supposed virgin birth?
2007-12-28 01:31:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The god-man phenomena/recipe which has been used many times throughout history always included the 'mother was a virgin' thingy as well as:
... local King felt threatened; wanted to kill the latest god-man.
... disappeared at the age of twelve.
... reappeared at the age of thirty.
... hung around with twelve other homeless men.
... did the three standard miracles trick: the blind to see, the cripple to walk and the dead to come back to life.
... died violently.
... came back to life.
"Or is the whole miraculous Jesus concept merely cemented by a supposed virgin birth?"
Short answer? Yes.
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2007-12-28 07:46:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus' birth were not to a virgin, he would not have been the Messiah. He would not have fulfilled the OT prophesy about his coming *and* he would not have been able to die for our sins.
This is a huge issue worthy of pages of explanation. The short version of the story follows this sequence:
- God is holy and cannot stand sin
- Men and women are fallible and incapable of being perfectly sinless
- Sin is a huge deal to God, even our "little white lies"
- Sin carries a huge penalty - death
- Since men and women can't be perfectly sinless and their sin carries a death penalty, they need a mediator, a sinless savior that can take the penalty on their behalf
- For the savior to be sinless, he can't have inherited man's sin nature from his father
Therefore, Jesus had to be born of a virgin so that he could bear the penalty for our sins.
I know this sounds sexist, but legally speaking, our sin nature is transmitted from the father to his children. This is because the first man, Adam, carries responsibility for the first sinful act.
I've omitted *lots* and *lots* of detail and support to try to keep this response short. I hope that you find it a coherent answer.
2007-12-28 01:51:00 · answer #2 · answered by onebriiguy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know if it would be any different, but the miraculous thing about it was that she had a child without any sleeping with anyone.
Anyone could have claimed to be the mother of a savior if she were married, but in the way it happened, no one could be pointed as the father of Jesus other than the Lord.
2007-12-28 01:37:40 · answer #3 · answered by squashed39402 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The virgin birth thing has always confused and upset me
2007-12-28 01:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by W,T,F 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A virgin birth, I mean come on would you believe a woman saying God is her third kid's actual father. No, we would say she was sleeping around on Joseph, LOL.
2007-12-28 01:38:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It might be different. Or maybe they would've left out the part about Mary's other children.
2007-12-28 01:36:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you get hit in the head and now you are conjuring up strange "questions" to ask? Blue band-aid is nice, though.
2007-12-28 01:36:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anna P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Barabbas was the neighbour of Jesus Family... and you know Barabbas...he will shag anything which moves.
2007-12-28 01:35:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋