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Adherents of Judaism do not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah nor do they believe he was the Son of God.In the Jewish perspective, it is believed that the way Christians see Jesus goes against monotheism, a belief in the absolute unity and singularity of God, which is central to Judaism; [1] Judaism sees the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, which is forbidden. [2]
The synoptic Gospels name Mary as the mother of Jesus. The gospels of Matthew and Luke describe Mary as a virgin [ c] who was chosen by God to conceive Jesus through the Holy Spirit. After giving birth to Jesus in Bethlehem, she raised him in the city of Nazareth in Galilee, and was in Jerusalem at his crucifixion and with the apostles after ...
The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian and Islamic doctrine that Jesus was conceived by his mother, Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse. [ 1] Christians regard the doctrine as an explanation of the mixture of the human and divine natures of Jesus. [ 2][ 1] The Eastern Orthodox Churches accept the ...
The first day of an eight-day Jewish season overlaps in December with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Hanukkah fails to fit with the cultural world of Jesus’ conteporaries.
Denial of the virgin birth of Jesus is found among various groups and individuals throughout the history of Christianity. These groups and individuals often took an approach to Christology that understands Jesus to be human, the literal son of human parents. [ 2][ 3] In the 19th century, the view was sometimes called psilanthropism, a term that ...
Other Calvinists affirmed Mary's perpetual virginity, including within the Second Helvetic Confession—stating that Mary was the "ever virgin Mary"—and in the notes of the Geneva Bible. [80] [3] Theodore Beza, a prominent early Calvinist, included the perpetual virginity of Mary in a list of agreements between Calvinism and the Catholic ...
Lutherans believe that the person Jesus is God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity, who was incarnated in the womb of his mother Mary as a human being, and since, as a person, he was "born of the Virgin Mary". [12] Lutherans have always believed that Mary is the Theotokos, the God-bearer. [citation needed] Martin Luther said:
Josephus on Jesus. The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus provides external information on some people and events found in the New Testament. [ 1] The extant manuscripts of Josephus' book Antiquities of the Jews, written around AD 93–94, contain two references to Jesus of Nazareth and one reference to John the Baptist. [ 2]