Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: metmom
Why are you introducing strawmen again? Nobody said that God was constricted to man made human legalities. God is, however, constricted to the promises HE made.

The point was made about the legality of Jesus. It is not and never was a point about legality; it was about God's fulfillment of God's promise to us.

The promise to David was that the throne was to be given to one of David's descendants.

Correct; no legalities involved.

6,998 posted on 01/11/2011 10:27:47 AM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6973 | View Replies ]


To: MarkBsnr

You don’t know much about monarchies and how they are passed down, do you?

They don’t elect kings, you know.......


7,001 posted on 01/11/2011 10:49:40 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6998 | View Replies ]

To: MarkBsnr; metmom
The promise to David was that the throne was to be given to one of David's descendants

Correct; no legalities involved.

The term used is "seed" (John 7:42, Gr. σπέρμα, spérma; also Ps 89:4, Heb. zera') and seed implies patrilinear inheritance, which is synonymous with legality.

Of course, women were believed to have no "seed". The Jews believed that the woman is a "fertile field" on which man's "seed" (a term synonymous with offspring or descendants) would grow.

This is how the term "barren" or "infertile" originated for women who could not get pregnant. As long as man produced "seed" the "fault" was woman's. So much for bible-based "science" under spiritual guidance.

In Romans 1:3 Paul clearly states that (he believed) Jesus was the product of patrilinear Davidic line:

Inheritance could not be passed on through the mother as the mother did not have the spérma.

7,026 posted on 01/13/2011 7:35:14 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6998 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson