Good idea.path_of_one said:Maybe I'll start a thread on heroes. It would be really neat to have different people list their "top five" heroes. Ghandi and MLK, Jr. are heroes to me too, although I'd have to give a lot of thought to pick just five inspirational people.
Conscience said:Lunamoth,
The 5 Heros were:
1. Malcolm X--Muslim
2. Bob Marley--Rastafarian
3. Ghandi--Hindu
4. Bruce Lee--asian martial arts philosophy
5. Martin Luther King Jr.--Christian
Those are the people I looked up to before I became a Christian. I still admire these men, but no longer call them heros. A hero of mine now is Apostle Paul. I love that dude. He went from soldier to soldier for the Lord. And, while he was given all these amazing reverlations from God, he still was humbled by the fact that he had problems with sin.
This always interests me.. Why in the world would it need to be written in Isaiah that a young woman would bear a child.. how is that in any way special.. dont young women usually bear children? Why would God tell us that a young woman would bear a child.. that would be like umm duh? A woman had to keep her virtue.. or risk death. Mary was not married to Joseph so what was she? A virgin... Bingo! Logic suggests that God would tell us that a virgin would bear a child to mark that child special from other children.. Food for thought for scoffers.didymus said:Well, probably the biggest mistranslation was that a virgin will give birth in Isaiah. This was originally young woman, not virgin.
There are many others that were mistranslated due tense. Tenses were changed from past to present and future. I have a link on these so I'll post it here. I need to warn you that this link will be highly controversial. Do you want it? It was written by a messianic jew
Doesn't make any difference. It is written that a young woman will bear a child.Faithfulservant said:This always interests me.. Why in the world would it need to be written in Isaiah that a young woman would bear a child..
So you go with the mistranslation because that makes it a prophecy and an accurate translation wouldn't. There's no logic involved in that.Conscience said:Here's an awesome post by FaithfulServant:
"This always interests me.. Why in the world would it need to be written in Isaiah that a young woman would bear a child.. how is that in any way special.. dont young women usually bear children? Why would God tell us that a young woman would bear a child.. that would be like umm duh? A woman had to keep her virtue.. or risk death. Mary was not married to Joseph so what was she? A virgin... Bingo! Logic suggests that God would tell us that a virgin would bear a child to mark that child special from other children.. Food for thought for scoffers."
Note the "duh," in his words. This is pretty much a no brainer. Is there any need to discuss this futher?