Fw: Re: [TruthTalk] Humanity of Jesus

[Judy Taylor]

From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Terry wrote: > Tell me, David.  If Jesus was born with the same > nature as us, why would He have had to be born > of a virgin and sired by God?  A hooker and a junkie > could have given us another man with a sin nature. > What am I missing in your thinking?   What you are missing is that God required both.  If he was the product of a hooker and a junkie, he would have been like other men but not God.  If he bypassed Mary entirely and just came to earth in his own form without the flesh, or created his own unique flesh, then he would have been God but not related to man.  To be both God and Man required the unique way in which he was born, but I must also point out that being born of a virgin was primarily a sign and not a necessity of what God was doing in becoming flesh.   David do you realize that you are promoting the same concept created by "so called" Orthodoxy?  This is what the writers of the Athanasian Creed came up with ie: that Jesus was all man and all God - They did this to battle what they perceived to be heresy in their day but IMO they made things worse rather than better especially by going on to call  it dogma.  judyt