RE: Virgin Mary, Ark of the Covenant
March 25, 2014 at 10:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2014 at 10:57 am by Phatt Matt s.)
Yes I'm sure anyone can provide a list of authors who claim doctrine X, Y, and Z is false. It doesn't prove anything. Also, I don't understande the Bible and I question how inerrant it is. Yet your idea that the Virgin Birth is Unbiblical, is a preposterous strawman that I would never have expected to come from an educated person.
You were making the point that this Virgin Birth stuff was taken from Pagan myth. I was simply showing you the errors.
Having a Doctorate doesn't mean one is right. THere are plenty of people far more educated and gifted than you who would say that you are full of shit!
Oh you have an education therefore you must be right. Nice strawman Dorothy. Toto and tin man would be proud of you
Also, what you said about Pagan Myth had many holes as I have and will continue to explain.
THe Hindu deity, Krishna, is often used. According to the religious Hindu text, Vishnu Purana, Krishna was mentally transmitted from the mind of the god Vasudeva (an incarnation of Krishna himself) into the womb of the princess Devaki. This appears at first glance to be a striking parallel, but it cannot be classified a virgin birth because Devaki and Vasudeva had previously borne seven children together.
One other item of note in this regard concerns the dating of the Puranas. According to R.C Zaehner, professor of Eastern Religions at Oxford, these texts did not begin to take shape until some time in the fourth century (cf. Hinduism, pg. 126).
In many cases, the birth of the pagan god will be the result of a sexual encounter between another god and a mortal woman. In other cases, the conception of the god is the result of a sexual encounter between another god and goddess. The two most often-used “virgin birth” parallels by mythicists are those of Horus and Dionysus.
The supposed “virgin birth” of the Egyptian god Horus is the most frequently encountered parallel, but the actual details of the myth do not resemble the story of Jesus at all. According to the mythology, this falcon-headed god was the offspring of the goddess Isis. Her husband, the god Osiris, was killed by his enemy Seth, the god of the desert, and later dismembered. Isis managed to retrieve all of Osiris’s body parts except for his phallus, which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by catfish. Isis used her goddess powers to temporarily resurrect Osiris and fashion a phallus of gold. She was then impregnated, and Horus was conceived.
The story of the birth of Jesus is just like that.
You were making the point that this Virgin Birth stuff was taken from Pagan myth. I was simply showing you the errors.
Having a Doctorate doesn't mean one is right. THere are plenty of people far more educated and gifted than you who would say that you are full of shit!
Oh you have an education therefore you must be right. Nice strawman Dorothy. Toto and tin man would be proud of you
Also, what you said about Pagan Myth had many holes as I have and will continue to explain.
THe Hindu deity, Krishna, is often used. According to the religious Hindu text, Vishnu Purana, Krishna was mentally transmitted from the mind of the god Vasudeva (an incarnation of Krishna himself) into the womb of the princess Devaki. This appears at first glance to be a striking parallel, but it cannot be classified a virgin birth because Devaki and Vasudeva had previously borne seven children together.
One other item of note in this regard concerns the dating of the Puranas. According to R.C Zaehner, professor of Eastern Religions at Oxford, these texts did not begin to take shape until some time in the fourth century (cf. Hinduism, pg. 126).
In many cases, the birth of the pagan god will be the result of a sexual encounter between another god and a mortal woman. In other cases, the conception of the god is the result of a sexual encounter between another god and goddess. The two most often-used “virgin birth” parallels by mythicists are those of Horus and Dionysus.
The supposed “virgin birth” of the Egyptian god Horus is the most frequently encountered parallel, but the actual details of the myth do not resemble the story of Jesus at all. According to the mythology, this falcon-headed god was the offspring of the goddess Isis. Her husband, the god Osiris, was killed by his enemy Seth, the god of the desert, and later dismembered. Isis managed to retrieve all of Osiris’s body parts except for his phallus, which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by catfish. Isis used her goddess powers to temporarily resurrect Osiris and fashion a phallus of gold. She was then impregnated, and Horus was conceived.
The story of the birth of Jesus is just like that.
