Subject: Mary's virginity remained intact |
Bible Note: Parable, Perhaps it’s your hermeneutics that fail you. Consider this, you have taken God, Mary, and the sin of adultery and are trying to explain the conception. I would argue based on your attempt at exegesis on this matter you have failed to consider several important things that are required to properly do so. 1) Know what the scriptures teach about God. 2) Know what the scriptures teach about Mary. 3) Know what the scriptures teach about sin. 4) Know what the scriptures teach regarding the conception. Example: You have chosen to include the sin of adultery. Where did that come from? This is not mentioned in the scriptures regarding this event. Yet you are trying to attribute it to the event. In my opinion, your mistake here is not understanding what scripture teaches us about what sin is as well as what scripture teaches us about God. Answer this question for yourself. What does the bible say sin is? Not the different types of sin, but what is sin according to God’s word? Once you have answered that question and come to an understanding of what the scriptures say about God and Mary and the conception then you should be better prepared to explain it. You appear to be attempting exegesis without proper understanding and/or elimination of the major facts of what you seek to explain. Instead, you are assuming much and applying that which does not apply. You attempt to reconcile it based on your assumptions and faulty reasoning which appear to be rooted in the flesh and not the Spirit. Understand? By Faith, Steve |