(October 29, 2010 at 4:52 pm)padraic Wrote:(October 27, 2010 at 6:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Blood line though his mother?
Neither version even says that. It's just a load of crap.
My limited understanding ,based on reading Jewish explanation of Messiahanic prophecy is:The Messiah will be of the Davidic line and a warrior-priest like David. Oh yeah, and the Messiah WILL NOT DIE.
The convolutions of Christian apologists to make Jesus fit prophecy gets very silly very quickly.The most recent Jewish contender for Messiah was an Hasidic Rabbi in C20Th.
In Jewish tradition,by definition a Jew is a person with a Jewish mother. There is no such thing as 'half Jewish.' You either are or are not a Jew.
Mary's genealogy isn't listed in the Bible. Could this possibly mean that Mary wasn't Jewish? If Mary wasn't Jewish, could this mean that Jesus wasn't Jewish?
"If your god has to make peace with me in my final hour when he has my whole lifetime to prove his existence to me...do you think I should bother?"
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen