Thoughtful Reflections on Faith and Life
I thought I would celebrate Advent by having a series of posts on Jesus. I will start with the virgin birth. I will not try and prove the virgin birth but will discuss the purpose of the virgin birth. Some skeptics would suggest that Matthew and Luke were forced into inventing a virgin birth because … Read More “Advent One: Virgin Birth” »
With Christmas almost here, I thought I would share these words of Francis Schaeffer concerning Mary from his book True Spirituality. It is beautiful, it is wonderful. She says: ‘Behold, the bondmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.’ There is an active passivity here. She took her own body, by … Read More “The Beauty of Mary’s Submission” »
The man Jesus of Nazareth is not the true Son of God because He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. On the contrary, because He is the true Son of God and because this is an inconceivable mystery intended to be acknowledged as such, therefore He is conceived by … Read More “Karl Barth on the Virgin Birth” »
Very often, skeptics claim that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is just another version of other pagan virgin mothers such as Isis. I have done some work to demonstrate that often these pagan mothers are not quite so virgin as Jesus Mythicists like to suggest. However, I would like to come at this … Read More “Mary and Pagan Virgin Mothers” »
Let me put my cards on the table: I believe Jesus to be the Son of God and that his human father was Joseph, the husband of Mary. Why do I believe that Jesus is the Son of God when only Matthew and Luke record the virgin birth and Paul never mentions it? Although the … Read More “Who is the Father of Jesus Christ?” »
A recent comment on this blog asked about the Egyptian Meri as a name for Isis as a connection to Mary the mother of Jesus. If you Google Meri and Mary you will find dozens of web-sites making that connection, seeing this as evidence that Mary the mother of Jesus is based on Meri the … Read More “Meri, Mary and the Mother of the Saviour” »
