Posted on 01/04/2016 9:38:32 AM PST by SweetAkitoRose
A 2013 Harris Poll found that while sixty-eight percent of American adults believe that Jesus is God, or the Son of God, only fifty-seven percent believe in the virgin birth. Disbelief in Jesus being born of a virgin, which is a fundamental tenet of Christianity, in turn implies a belief that the author of the Gospel According to Luke lied when he wrote: The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph…. The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus….†But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?†And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.†(1:26-35; emphasis added)
Biblical scholars use various methods to assess the truthfulness of the New Testament accounts of Jesus. One is the Criterion of Embarrassment, according to which it is human nature to write in a manner that puts the author and his cause in a positive, instead of embarrassing or negative, light. The authors of the canonical Gospels are no exception. And so, with this criterion in mind, it is reasonable for us to infer that biblical passages that place Jesus or His mother in an unflattering light, such as Mary’s premarital pregnancy, are likely to be true.
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Islam also claims a virgin birth for Jesus. It further claims, however, that Allah does not produce sons.
Okay, they are cool with the God concept but not cool with the idea the creator can cause a virgin to be pregnant.
Of course if joeseph is the father, God failed in his blood curse against jeconia of whom Joseph is a defendant, and of whom Jesus gains the right to be king of the Jews. And there is much much more to support a virgin birth that predates the gospel period by centuries.
This article isn’t a theological or scriptural analysis, but a presentation of DNA research. I strongly recommend reading the full article.
That's because Allah is not God, but Satan.
In his fascinating book Tipler states:
1) there are three distinct singularities that are actually parts of the one cosmological singularity, that could correspond to the Trinity
2) a mechanism for dematerializing and materializing an object by means of neutrinos can be a method of universal resurrection in the future. The image of Jesus on the shroud of Turin would have certain features we would expect to arise in the neutrino dematerialization process
3) the virgin birth was possible because Jesus was a XX male
4) the miracle of the star of Bethlehem was a supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy.
5) human history will end in about 50 years and we will face the Great Tribulation in about 50 years
Good article. We’ve followed the Shroud of Turin for decades, and have wondered if DNA tests have been done on the ancient blood stains. Very interesting about the XX male chromosome results.
It doesn’t say that at all. In fact it says Jesus is in fact an XX male...which means he doesn’t have the Y chromosome that typical males have. So it’s either he’s a rare he-she type person (which happens, but very rarely) or he is a virgin born son.
If the he-she option is correct then how did the disciples know about it to say he was a virgin born son. they didn’t have knowledge of DNA back then to make up such a story.
Allah’s characteristics do fit the being that they like to call Iblis or Shaitan.
Bingo.
XX males have no Y chromosomes, yet they are males.
For ~90% of XX males: one of their X-chromosomes functions as a Y due to SRY-insertion (SRY is the sex-determining region of the Y-chromosome).
The other ~10% of XX males are male despite not having SRY on an X (they are “negative for SRY gene” or “SRY-negative”).
I don’t think anyone knows why these 10% are male: even today the genetics of sex-determination are not completely understood.
It would seem to imply the opposite to me. Telling a story of a virgin birth puts both Marty and Jesus in a positive, not a negative light. She was still a virgin, according to the story.
There is no way that this is unflattering. Besides, she was with her husband.
BTW, the “begats” (the beginning of Matthew) trace Jesus’s family tree — according to JOSEPH’S lineage, not Mary’s. But if he’s only Mary’s son and not Joseph’s, then that lineage is irrelevant and the point it’s making is moot.
There are many others who have “virgin birth” stories. Why is that of Jesus true and those others not?
How is one biologically male without Y chromosomes? I remember from science class that that is essentially what makes us male.
These XX-males have testes, despite having no Y.
Also: some women have Y-chromosomes, but are completely female. This is because (IIRC) they are insensitive to testosterone.
Caitlyn Jenner?
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That’s a fascinating article. I was not aware that DNA tests had been done.
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