(October 16, 2013 at 12:52 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Actually the line "she (his mother) shall call him Emmanuel" is not in Matthew. It's in Isaiah 7:14. Jesus is not called Emmanuel anywhere in the New Testament. It's supposed to be a fulfilled prophecy, but there's no evidence that the passages in Isaiah are referring to Jesus at all. Even if they were, it's not any sort of fulfilled prophecy, because Jesus is just a character in a book written by someone who could have read the older parts, and then claimed prophecy fulfilled. It's like me making a prophecy that the word "sentence" will be the last word in this sentence.
Actually - the christ myth COULD NOT have been the Messiah - period
One of the prophecies of the messiah was that he would rebuild the Temple at Jersualem for the third time - and he will unite ALL the world under the Jewish religion and have others admit they were wrong.
The temple of Jerusalem was NOT destroyed the second time until after the supposed time of the christ - so he could NOT have fulfilled the first prophecy
And obviously - not everyone was A JEW - at no time in the common era.
