(October 31, 2012 at 12:03 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Jesus existed somehowNot if the parts that you believe he "couldn't control" were actually just allegorical parts. Jesus may exist literally having been sent to earth as God incarnate, and "God" may have still created the universe and everything else could just be allegory.
This is really saying something about God's properties; that he couldn't control how his word would turn out.
Quote:If we have to deny all the apparent connections between the OT and NT and say Jesus was born indepenent of what the OT says, then that's just a pretty sloppy job of God willing his word into existence."God works in mysterious ways". What's "sloppy" or not is subjective.