nobdysfool
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1) What does sin have to do with birth or sex?
Jesus' conception and birth had to be miraculous, or He would have been just another sinful man.
KCDAD said:2) Perform miracles? Why? I thought the Gospel was a message.
A message confirmed by miracles.
KCDAD said:3) Die? God can't die. God is immortal.
Jesus possessed a human body during His Incarnation. He Himself stated that no man takes His Life, He lays it down (physical death) and He takes it up again (resurrection). His human body literally died, was dead for 3 days, and then was raised again, literally. That is central to the Gospel, and a non-negotiable core article of faith. Paul himself stated that if there is no resurrection, there is no Gospel.
KCDAD said:4) Apparently Jesus was never dead... he is eternally begotten not made since the beginning of time. Equal, one with the father... Even during the "three days" he was busy descending into hell...
The Bible does not say he descended into Hell. It says He preached to the souls in prison, which some interpret as Hell, but it is not the issue here. And Jesus DID physically die. He laid down His physical human life, as He was sent by the Father to do.
KCDAD said:What did Jesus save you from by his death?
He moved those who are joined to Him beyond the penalty for sin which is death. By faith in Him, Paul said we are crucified with Christ. We died when He died, and by faith we arose when He arose in newness of life. When we are joined to Christ, by faith in Him, what He experienced, we are counted as having experienced. The reason we get baptized is to figuratively participate in His burial.
The death of Jesus and His subsequent burial and resurrection saved us from the penalty of our sins. Once we are joined with Christ, we are counted as having paid for our sins, by death, which is the penalty for sin. But since we are joined to Christ (and this only applies to those so joined in faith) we are raised from death, because there no longer remains a penalty to be paid. The penalty has been paid, and we who are in Christ have been moved beyond it.
Bottom line, is still this: A rejection of the virgin birth and the literal physical resurrection of Jesus is a denial of core Christian faith.
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