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awareness · 05-23-2015, 03:25 PM

Good posts so far. I'll just poke some thoughts out here, prolly a little at a time, concerning the virgin birth.

The virgin birth is important to those that believe Jesus was/is God, for obvious reasons.

The virgin birth could have been important when competing with the mythologies of the time, that already had virgin, or miraculous, births long before Jesus. Legend has it, in fact, that, Alexander the Great was born of a virgin, 350 yrs before Jesus ... the one that Hellenized the whole region, resulting in the Septuagint, and the gospels being written in Greek.

Right now , if we continue this subject, and I hope we do, for clarity, I would like to ask you bro Tim (may I call you that?): Can you please list what you believe to be the order the gospels were written in ... earliest first? Or do you just accept the canonical order?

05-23-2015, 03:25 PM	#4
awareness Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 8,064	Re: Virgin Birth questioned: the implications Good posts so far. I'll just poke some thoughts out here, prolly a little at a time, concerning the virgin birth. The virgin birth is important to those that believe Jesus was/is God, for obvious reasons. The virgin birth could have been important when competing with the mythologies of the time, that already had virgin, or miraculous, births long before Jesus. Legend has it, in fact, that, Alexander the Great was born of a virgin, 350 yrs before Jesus ... the one that Hellenized the whole region, resulting in the Septuagint, and the gospels being written in Greek. Right now , if we continue this subject, and I hope we do, for clarity, I would like to ask you bro Tim (may I call you that?): Can you please list what you believe to be the order the gospels were written in ... earliest first? Or do you just accept the canonical order? __________________ Cults: My brain will always be there for you. Thinking. So you don't have to. There's a serpent in every paradise.