Sentences with phrase «about virgin birth»

I am not trying to tell you what you should think about the virgin birth; I am simply indicating that personally I can not believe it.

Much more easy to make up a cockamamie story about virgin birth and let your offspring believe they are «special» than to come out and fess up.

He had some doubts about the virgin birth and the physical resurrection and ascension of Jesus.

Those are not beliefs — not in the biblical sense of the term «belief» — or if they are a form of belief they are disconnected from any relevance to you and I. None of these «so called» beliefs affect much of what you do with your life — knowing about a virgin birth won't give you the tools to be a better parent — these «beliefs» do not function like that — they are more suppositions about the character of God.

Notice that nothing was said about the virgin birth of Christ, the sinless life of Christ, or deity of Christ, or how we are supposed to give up all and follow Christ after we become justified.

The alleged «silence» about the virgin birth from other New Testament authors can not be used as an argument against it since its factuality would have been revealed by Mary only after the resurrection and it did not constitute the centre of the Easter message; Redford even finds hints thatother New Testament authors framed their affirmations to allow for the virgin birth.

If that is somehow less important than believeing some fairy tale about a virgin birth and recurrection, than I have no interest in going to heaven.

Did they not know about the virgin birth?

Also I've always wondered if the people Jesus grew up with knew about the virgin birth and how Jesus was actually God.

If they did know about the virgin birth, why wasn't such a spectacular miracle worth mentioning?

@Lynnn «I've always wondered if the people Jesus grew up with knew about the virgin birth and how Jesus was actually God.»

There has been much debate about the Virgin Birth or, as it is properly described, the virginal conception of Jesus.

Obviously, today's followers / singers of Paul et al's «magic - man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about virgin births and bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic - man atonement, and infallible, old, European, white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption of said sacrifices.

... like scripts thousands years before the bible that talked about virgin births and resurrections after 3 days... and the mythological connections didn't strike you as just another fool's story?

Not exact matches

Commenting on criticism surround the Virgin Birth, Very Rev Michael Sadgrove said: «He wasn't deconstructing the meaning of the Gospel, he wasn't in any way devaluing what the tradition has to say about faith.

Right next to the parts about the talking snakes, virgin birth, and banana cream spaceships.

7) This god is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin of Adam and Eve.

Those who read the Krauss article should be warned that Krauss makes a false insinuation about the views on miracles and the Virgin Birth of Br.

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

I am simply trying to understand you correctly.From what you stated, I am wondering about your take on the virgin birth, the miracles and healing Jesus performed and his resurrection?

The truly important questions about the birth stories are not whether Jesus was born of a virgin, or whether there was an empire — wide census that took Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, or whether there was a special star leading wise men from the East.

When Creationists pick any inconsistency in science as proofs that sciences are wrong, but provide no proofs of any kind about the «magic» events happened in the bible such as virgin birth, walking on water, turning water to wine, and parting the red sea.

In some cases» such as the Lucan account of the virgin birth or eyewitness reports about the risen Jesus» Cox mentions the troublesome passages but discourages his readers from grappling with their literal meaning and supernatural elements.

I think if you can believe that a virgin gave birth and that a person was killed by hanging on a cross and got back up in three days, you can use religion to justify about anything!

She is adamant about the necessity of core creeds — the deity of Christ, his virgin birth and bodily resurrection.

We ought not speak as though all that matters about her is the virgin birth.

Judaism PLUS a belief that the same god impregnated a virgin with himself to give birth to himself, so he could sacrifice himself to himself to negate a rule he himself made about a couple who never exists equals Christianity.

The Catholic who feels, with Pope Francis, that the Church should speak more about poverty and less about sexuality is different from the Catholic who no longer really believes in the Resurrection or the Virgin Birth.

By that time various legends about Jesus were growing steadily, such as that of the Virgin Birth, and the more miraculous stories of what he did during his earthly ministry.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

Most of us don't get nearly as excited about the resurrection of Jesus at Easter as we do for the virgin birth of Jesus at Christmas.

They almost completely ignored and forgot the Christ within, focusing instead on the ideas of blood - sacrifice for atonement, virgin birth, divinity and physical resurrection, all of which are irrelevant distractions from the principal teaching of Jesus about unity with the Father and the Kingdom of Heaven.

In contrast to Matthew and Luke, who play the storytellers, charming us at Christmas with tales about angels and shepherds, a virgin birth in a stable, a villain named Herod and heroes like the Magi, John plays the theologian, starting off with a dazzling conundrum: the light by which everyone sees came into the world, yet the world didn't see it.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana and Dionysus (including the virgin birth, and turning water into wine).

So are fairy tales about magic loaves and fishes, talking snakes and virgin births.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including the virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

does «biblical christianity» still require us to stone to death those who work on the sabbath, commit adultery, curse their parents, worship gods other than yahweh, etc etc or did jesus change his mind about those things after his «virgin birth»?

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Ho.rus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

By now, Laura and others in the church were beginning to wonder about their own views on the virgin birth and what their church believed.

I think we differ in that I'm trying to ask questions about theology and it's development and yr echoing Paul's polemic.Let's take SocietyVs's cue and ponder what we find in a small sliver of the synoptics, with respect to The Virgin Birth

(7) In 1916 when the Statement was drafted, no one had thought to include statements about Jesus which were assumed by all: his virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary atonement, bodily resurrection, and exaltation to God's right hand.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

The problem, however, is that for some reason, most of us don't get nearly as excited about the resurrection of Jesus as we do for the virgin birth of Jesus.

These «virgin births» raised eyebrows because this asexual method of reproduction, called parthenogenesis, is rare among vertebrates: only about 70 backboned species can do it (that's about 0.1 percent of all vertebrates).

But He remains desperate for an explanation of these superpowers until Mary finally «fesses up about everything from the Immaculate Conception to the Virgin Birth to His divine destiny.

In Willie Nelson's third book, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, the reader is treated to a very sad forward by co-writer Kinky Friedman in which Nelson's life is compared to the Virgin birth before sharing how the singer / songwriter wrote new lyrics on the discards of feminine hygiene supplies and vomit bags, as well as several attempts at bragging about how much marijuana Nelson uses.

The pieces en masse form a lyrical and disturbing poem — which takes the title Virgin Birth «N» Turf — about the state of the union and our contemporary American moment.

What reservations I may or may not have about resurrection or virgin birth are nobody's business but my own.

Sadly, those are the folk who have bought into the virgin birth of global warming, never to be challenged, thought about, contradicted.