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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 ...
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 doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity has been challenged on the basis that the New Testament explicitly affirms her virginity only until the birth of Jesus [ 15] and mentions the brothers ( adelphoi) of Jesus, [ 16][ 17] who may have been: (1) sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph; (2) sons of the Mary named in Mark 15:40 as ...
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.
Mother of God: Mary, as the mother of Jesus, is the Theotokos (God-bearer), or Mother of God. Virgin birth of Jesus: Mary conceived Jesus by action of the Holy Spirit while remaining a virgin. Perpetual Virginity: Mary remained a virgin all her life, even after the act of giving birth to Jesus.
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 ...
Medieval Hebrew midrashic literature contain the "Episode of Jesus" (known also as Maaseh Yeshu ), in which Jesus is described as being the son of Joseph, the son of Pandera (see: Episode of Jesus ). The account portrays Jesus as an impostor. The Talmud, and other talmudic texts, contain several references to the "son of Pandera".
Anne, the mother of Mary, first appears in the 2nd-century apocryphal Gospel of James.The author of the gospel borrowed from Greek tales of the childhood of heroes. For Jesus' grandmother the author drew on the more benign biblical story of Hannah—hence Anna—who conceived Samuel in her old age, thus reprising the miraculous birth of the Jesus with a merely remarkable one for his mother. [14]