@bulmabriefs144,
Quote: Find one part of the Bible where it insists Jesus must be male.
God never refers to his only begotten child as a '
DAUGHTER', but
ALWAYS as a "
SON," and the Only begotten "
SON" of God, never refers to his heavenly parent as 'MOTHER' but
ALWAYS as
'HIS' "FATHER".
I could go on and on, but why waste my valuable time? If you had ever studied the bible, rather than listening to the rubbish that has filled your head, you would know that God and ‘
HIS” only begotten
SON, are both androgynous being, with more male cells than female cells, and are therefore males and not females. Just as our material universe is comprised of atoms of Matter and atoms of anti-matter, but because the matter atoms outnumber the anti-matter atoms, we do not live in an anti-matter universe, but a material universe.
You're not right in the head kiddo, the author of the link that you provided, was Richard Dawkins, a red-hot atheist and hater of any and all religious bodies who believe that a God or any gods exist and will do all in his power, in his futile attempt to prove them to be wrong. He even believes that the bible doesn't state that Jesus was born of the flesh by Joseph and his half-sister Mary, but that he was born of some supposed ever virgin, which is just one of the false fabricated teachings of the lying church of Emperor Constantine, the holy mother body, who sits on the seven hills of Rome. You're certainly thick son, as thick as a brick.
Quote:So, tell me where it says it matters?
Matthew 7: 15-19; “Be on your guard against false prophets; they come to you looking like sheep on the outside, but on the inside they are really like wild wolves. You will know them by what they do. Thorn bushes do not bear grapes, and briars do not bear figs. A healthy tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a poor tree cannot bear good fruit. And any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire……. The Lake that burns with sulfur and fire, which is the Second death, is the place reserved for all False prophets.
Matthew 7:21-23; Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my ‘
FATHER’ which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Here in Jeremiah, the Lord is referring to people who say that they are speaking the words of the Lord, in other words they are claiming to be prophets of the Lord, which they are not: Jeremiah 23: 31-32; “I am also against those prophets who speak their own words and claim they came from me. Listen to what I, the LORD, say! I am against the prophets who tell their dreams that are full of lies. They tell these dreams and lead my people astray with their lies and their boasting. I did not send them or order them to go, and they are of no help at all to the people. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
Quote:Scripture clearly teaches Christ has always existed and has always been God. At no point in time did He ever become God. We will examine a few passages which reveal this truth.
No mate, the Roman church of Emperor Constantine falsely teaches that their supposed ever virgin was no more than a physical factory in which their god created a human-like body for “
HIS” eternal
SON in which he walked the earth disguised as a human being, who later had that body killed, while he descended through time and preached the Good News to those who were disobedient while Noah was building the ark.
This was before ‘OUR’ heavenly ‘
FATHER’ raised up that dead body and translated the physical non-human body, as ‘
HIS’ eternal S
ON returned to ‘
HIS” eternal heavenly home.
What a pity that your god has never been able to raise a descendant of Adam to eternal life.
Quote:I cited John 1, when you talked about this. I cited the virgin birth. I've mentioned pretty much every Gospel but Mark, which basically launches in with John the Baptist then "immediately" to the baptism. That's great and all, but Mark basically sells Jesus as someone who just kinda walked up from nowhere. Even his parents aren't mentioned here.
Both John the beloved disciple of Jesus, and Mark, who is believed to be the son of Peter, ignore the physical birth of Jesus as being totally irrelevant to the salvation of mankind, and begin their account of God’s salvation, with the baptism of the man Jesus, when the spirit of the Lord descended upon ‘HIM’ in the form of a dove, as the heavenly voice was heard to say; “You are my Son, ‘
THIS DAY’ I have begotten thee, as verified by the following authorities of the second, third, and fourth centuries who wrote, “This day I have begotten thee,” which is vouched for by Codex D, and the most ancient copies of the old latin (a, b. c. ff.I), by Justin Martyr (AD 140), Clemens Alex, (AD. 190), Methodius (AD. 290), among the Greeks. And among the Latins, Lactaitius (AD 300), Hilary (AD) Juvencus (AD. 330), Faustus (AD. 400) and Augustine. All these oldest manuscripts were changed completely. They now read, “This is my son in whom I am well pleased.” Whereas the original variant was,
“THOU ART MY SON THIS DAY I H AVE BEGOTTEN THEE".
While Matthew, whose gospel was originally written in Hebrew used the Hebrew word “
almah’ which in no way can be translated as virgin, and when his gospel was translated to the Greek, which language does not have a specific word for virgin, the translators were forced to use the Greek term ‘
Parthenos’ which carries a basic meaning of ‘girl,’ or unmarried youth, and denotes ‘virgin’ only by implication.
It was through a Greek speaking man that Gabriel, the angel of the Greeks and not Michael the angel of the Hebrews, spoke to the 13/14 year-old “parthenos” (
Young unmarried woman) and told her that she would soon become pregnant and bear a son, who God would make a King, as his ancestor David (Of the seed of Adam) was.
So the Lord through his angel verifies, that her son would be genetically descended from King David of the seed of Adam, and that she, a Parthenos, was still a virgin at that time and had never had sexual contact with a man, but, when three months later she was found to be pregnant to her half brother Joseph the son of Heli, she was no longer a virgin.
Isaiah 7: 14; Jewish Translation: “Therefore the Lord, of his own, shall give you a sign; behold the
‘YOUNG WOMAN’ is with child, and she shall bear a son and she shall call his name Immanuel.”
Isaiah 7: 14; Erroneous KJV Translation; “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold the ‘Virgin’ shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel.”
“The Greek word parthenos (παρθένος) is ambiguous but the Hebrew term “Almah”[
Unmarried Female] is absolute, and is erroneously translated from Isaiah 7: 14, to Greek in Matthew 1:23; as “virgin,” whereas according to Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible, the Hebrew term “Almah,” carries the meaning,
(Concealment---unmarried female.)”
In 1973, an ecumenical edition of RSV was approved by both Protestant and Catholic hierarchies, called the common bible. A New English Translation of the Bible, published in 1970 and approved by the council of churches in England, Scotland, Wales, the Irish council of churches, the London Society of Friends, and the Methodist and Presbyterian churches of England, all translate Isaiah 7: 14; “A young Woman is with child, and she will bear a son.”
Also The Good News Bible, Catholic Study Edition, with imprimatur by Archbishop John Whealon reads, Isaiah 7: 14; “A young woman who is pregnant will have a son, etc.”
An unmarried woman (An almah) can still be a virgin, if she has never had sexual intercourse with a man, but a pregnant unmarried woman (An almah) can in no way, still be a virgin.
As these religious bodies all now accept that Isaiah was not referring to a virgin in that famous passage, they must now accept that the authors of the Septuagint and the translators of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, who were forced to use the Greek term “
Parthenos” in reference to Isaiah’s prophecy, were in no way implying that the pregnant Mary, was still a virgin.
Matthew 1: 22-23; should now read; ‘Now all this happened to make come true what the Lord had said through the prophet [Isaiah],’ “An unmarried woman/Almah who is pregnant will bear a son and he will be called Immanuel: (“which means God is with us.”)
And the Lord God our saviour, who filled the man Jesus with ‘
HIS’ spirit on the day that Jesus was baptised, was certainly with us, as ‘
HE’ spoke to us and performed many miracles through his earthly servant and host body, the Man Jesus, who, according to Acts 3: 13, was given diving glory by the God of our ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and is now incontestably divine and sits in the heavenly throne of
‘OUR FATHER’ from where he invites all ‘
HIS” Brethren who are able to win the victory as '
HE' has, to sit beside '
HIM' in '
HIS' heavenly throne.
While Luke reveals that Jesus was the son of Joseph the son of Alexander Helios III, also called Heli.
To be continued.
