Subject: HOW COULD JESUS BE A DESCENDANT OF DAVID |
Bible Note: Steve That is interesting and I must admit the first time of heard of this theory and I thought I heard them all. If I'm hearing you right your saying there have been two virgin births? One at the time of Isaiah and King Ahaz and the other Jesus. Man Christianity has had a hard enough time trying to convince the world there was one with Jesus and now you telling us there are two! I personally see the prophecy fulfilled in Isaiah by history of what took place and the birth of Jesus. I simply can not/will not buy into this theory that there were two virgin births. Nothing is mentioned in scripture of the birth. Only thing we see in relation to timing, other than your assumption that it had to be witnessed by King Ahaz, was it would be done after the Kings of Syria and Ephraim would meet their doom at the hands of Assyria. I submit to you that your assertion that the virgin birth had to be done within the witness of Ahaz is incorrect. Further reading shows that Ahaz asked for no proof but God said he would show himself before all of Israel which he did by the birth of Jesus. Your assertion places God in a box, that box being the confines of time, yet we know that a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day to God. Meaning God is not constrained by time, therefore God telling Ahaz he would bring forth a baby from a virgin was not limited to Ahaz's lifetime but rather the history of the Israel. I will do further investigation of this matter as I said I have never heard this one before. Interesting!!! EdB |