Jeremiah prophesied the Lord's words, no descendant of Jeconiah can sit on the throne of David, yet Matthew listed Jeconiah in the genealogy of Christ. In Matthew's genealogy, Joseph had Jeconiah’s blood in his veins. Therefore, how can Jesus be the descendant of the cursed Jeconiah? He was not qualified to sit on David's throne based on the Old Testament prophecy that: “Is this man,…
St. Athanasius dedicated three chapters of his book On the Incarnation to refuting objections to the divinity of Christ by both Jews and Gentiles. He believes that the objections are fundamentally the same, as “in both cases, the points at issue are the 'unfittingness' or incongruity (as it seems to them) alike of the cross and of the Word becoming man at all." St.…
Humans like you and me are mortals. Eventually, we will all die. We are finite and have limited control over our lives, even if we still have the ability to do amazing things in our lives. On the other hand, God is defined - by The Oxford Dictionary - as a superhuman or spirit worshipped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a…
Few scholars hold the view that Jesus never lived. However, this idea is persistent and appears from time to time. For such scholars, the books of the New Testament are late with the exception of Paul’s epistles. Since Paul didn’t meet Jesus physically, it is possible that Jesus never existed at all and Christianity started without any contact with a historical Jesus who supposedly…
