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| | Virgin Birth |
 | | Brown, R. E., The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus (1973) and The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke (1977); Campenhausen, H. von, The Virgin Birth in the Theology of the Ancient Church (1964); Miguens, M., The Virgin Birth: An Evaluation of Scriptural Evidence (1975). | | | The virgin birth was not part of Jesus' preaching or that of the early church. | | | The virgin birth is important because of: (1) The doctrine of Scripture. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/virginbi.htm
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| | Virgin Birth of Christ |
| | One of the arguments that is often broached to discredit the virgin birth of Christ is the silence of Mark on the virgin birth. | | | This is one of the strongest evidences for the virgin birth of Christ. | | | If some one says that virgin birth is a myth because it is not described by Mark, then doubt might be cast upon the fact that Jesus was born at all, for Mark does not mention it. |
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http://www.athmaprakashini.com/virginbirth4.htm
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| | Torah (Teachings) of Yahshua Messiah (Jesus, Yeshua) - rebuking the Trinity and Lawlessness |
| | The argument to which I refer is the use of Genesis 3:15 by those promoting the virgin birth of the passage, which refers to the "seed" of woman. | | | The unusual importance Christian leaders place on Yahshua's birth may be due to the importance that was placed on the birth of Tammuz, Mithra, and other "god in the flesh" saviors in the pagan religions from which the Constantinian religion of Christianity derived many of its doctrines. | | | Virgin birth proponents are forced to rely upon the small fragments of verses they cling to from Matthew and Luke since the Tanakh (Older Testament) is void of any proof of the virgin birth. |
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http://www.torahofmessiah.com/virginbirth.html
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| | Catholic Bible Study - The Virgin Birth |
| | It is a matter of Catholic faith that Mary was a Virgin at the conception and at the birth of Christ, and that she always remained a virgin after the birth of Christ. | | | In affirming the doctrine of the Virgin Birth, the Fathers appeal to the following passage in Isaias: "A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son" (Isaias 7:14); in this passage "virgin" is the subject of both verbs - Mary was a virgin in the birth of Christ as well as in the conception of Christ. | | | Since the Blessed Virgin was speaking in the hearing of strangers who did not know of the Virgin Birth, Mary refers to Joseph as the "father" of Christ; any insinuation that Joseph was not the real father of Christ would have immediately aroused serious suspicions in the minds of the Jews. |
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http://www.cathtruth.com/catholicbible/virbirth.htm
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| | Arguments for the existence of God |
| | Three cosmological arguments are commonly relied on by theists to verify the existence of god: the first-cause argument, the contingency argument, and the entropy argument. | | | Like the cosmological argument the teleological argument is presented in one of three slightly different variations, the argument from design, the analogical argument, and the argument from life. | | | If the theist is to use ignorance of the root cause of a natural phenomena as an argument for god's existence, then he must also grant ignorance of the existence of god. |
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http://home.inu.net/skeptic/god.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Blessed Virgin Mary |
| | The argument is based on the premises that the prophet's virgin is the mother of Emmanuel, and that Emmanuel is Christ. | | | The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God. | | | Mary reminded him of her vow of virginity, and in his embarrassment the high priest consulted the Lord. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virgin Birth of Christ |
| | Those who derive the virgin birth from Isaias 7:14, must maintain that an accidental misinterpretation of the Prophet by the Evangelist replaced historic truth among the early Christians in spite of the better knowledge and the testimony of the disciples and kindred of Jesus. | | | The dogma which teaches that the Blessed Mother of Jesus Christ was a virgin before, during, and after the conception and birth of her Divine Son. | | | Besides, the very argument on which rests the importation of the virgin birth from pagan myths into Christianity is fallacious, to say the least. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15448a.htm
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| | The miraculous birth came to be regarded as a sign of the divine nature of Jesus. | | | virgin birth The assertion in the gospels of Matthew and Luke that Jesus was born of Mary without the intervention of a human partner. | | | In favour of the traditional doctrine it is argued that it is appropriate as a means by which God made a decisive break with the old, sinful humanity and inaugurated in Jesus a new, untainted humanity. |
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http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/virgin.htm
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| | Was Jesus Christ really born of a Virgin? |
| | A popular objection to the virgin birth is to say that the pagan religions and the mythologies of Greece and Rome contained accounts of supernatural births of their heroes. | | | Luke is the prominent witness for the virgin birth. | | | The Bible says, "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost..... |
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http://www.bible.ca/d-virgin-birth.htm
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| | Virgin birth: a defense |
| | The Virgin Birth in the Theology of the Ancient Church. | | | Finally, it may be that the virgin birth was directly alluded to in the Gospel of John. | | | The virgin birth was not seen in a christological perspective when Matthew and Luke reported it; hence, there is no reason for it to appear in Paul's letters or elsewhere in the NT. |
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| | The arguments are over the word "virgin." If the fact is accepted that Mary was truly a virgin then the fact must also be accepted that Jesus was and is the prophecied Jewish Messiah because He and only He was born of a virgin as prophecied. | | | Those who refuse to accept the virgin birth point to the fact that the Hebrew word that is translated "virgin" really means "young woman," not "virgin." Therefore, to them, Jesus was born in a natural manner of a young woman and is not the Messiah). | | | It is stated she was a virgin and this was verified by stating that no man had known her ("Known her" in the Bible is a euphemism for sexual intercourse). |
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| | VirginBirth2.htm |
| | All pro-"virgin" birth arguments seem to be an effort to twist and force-fit all of Scripture to agree with a few verses from Matthew and Luke. | | | Another reason people reject the virgin birth is because pagan mythology has many saviors that were born of virgins. | | | A third reason for rejecting the virgin birth is because the Hebrew "alma" of Is 7:14. |
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http://onhigh.org/VirginbirthDiscussion.htm
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| | The Virgin Birth of Christ: Prophecies in Genesis and Isaiah |
| | Evidently, he was thinking of a virgin of such singular renown and importance that she was rightly called "the virgin." No doubt he was thinking of the virgin mentioned first in Genesis 3:15, the virgin who would bear the conqueror of Satan (20). | | | The Virgin Birth of Christ: Prophecies in Genesis and Isaiah | | | The first hint in the Old Testament that the coming Christ would be born of a virgin occurs right at the beginning. |
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| | The virgin birth |
| | Second, the claim that "virgin births" are common in other religious literature has to be challenged. | | | You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus... | | | They say, "modern people can't believe in the virgin birth [or more correctly 'the virginal conception'] of Jesus." So they try to argue it away and say that Christians don't have to believe it either. |
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http://web.ukonline.co.uk/freegrace/live/issues/virgin_birth.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Septuagint |
| | Many modern Catholic translations of the Bible, while using the Masoretic text as their basis, employ the Septuagint to decide between different possible translations of the Hebrew text whenever the latter is unclear, corrupt, or ambiguous. | | | Jump to: navigation, search Genesis (Greek: ΓÎνεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin), also called The First Book of Moses, is the first book of Torah (five books of Moses), and is the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also... | | | Jump to: navigation, search The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. |
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| | IslamOnline - Contemporary Section |
| | Therefore, when people object to the virgin birth or other miracles told in the Qur’an, they are doing so not because of science, but because of their faith in naturalism. | | | Mary is the devout Jewish woman who gave birth to Jesus Christ without a biological father, according to the Gospels—and from a Muslim point of view, according to the Qur’an. | | | As a Muslim, I am a passionate defender of the virgin birth of Christ, and all Muslims should be so. |
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| | The virgin Mary's importance to the Church is signified by her being the only servant of God personally named in the Creed besides her Son Jesus. | | | Is the Church correct to claim that this prophecy foretold the Virgin Birth of the Messiah? | | | The Apostles' Creed calls on Christians to confess their belief that Jesus Christ was ``born of the holy Spirit and the virgin Mary.'' The immediate biblical sources for this doctrine are the Birth Narratives of Matt. |
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| | Is the Virgin Birth Miracle or Myth? |
| | Finally, while it is currently popular to suggest that the Gospel writers borrowed the virgin birth motif from pagan mythology, the facts say otherwise. | | | In other words, if we are willing to believe that God created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1), we should have no problem accepting the virgin birth. | | | Manuscript evidence, archaeology, predictive prophecy, and the science of statistical probability together provide a persuasive case for the reliability of Scripture; thus, we may legitimately appeal to the Word of God as evidence for the virgin birth. |
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| | Virgin Birth of Jesus |
| | 'I would like to hear your explanation for the virgin birth of Jesus. | | | Doesn't it stand to reason then that G-d desires us to use this mind in the most important area - the knowledge and worship of Him? | | | If he had no proof for his arguments and theories, and just told the students and reporters to believe in his views without any proof, would he not be laughed out of the lecture hall? |
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| | Opening Statements- Virgin Birth |
| | Started By The Addition of the virgin birth. | | | Webmasters: Get this box & win an award |
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