Jesus was conceived by Mary and her husband Joseph in the normal way.
And just which 'celestial being' told you this?
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Jesus was conceived by Mary and her husband Joseph in the normal way.
And just which 'celestial being' told you this?
You might wish to check and see if your celestial beings offer anything in the way of remedial math.Oh, that's right. Only 4,000 year old revelation counts to some people.
You might wish to check and see if your celestial beings offer anything in the way of remedial math.
By the way, I particularly like
Joseph, the human father of Jesus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, albeit he carried many non-Jewish racial strains which had been added to his ancestral tree from time to time by the female lines of his progenitors.Those celestial beings of yours really have a rather distasteful fixation on 'racial strains'. It's something they should work on.
Parenthetically, for those who now wonder about Mary ...
Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia.Not just history ... racial history!
I'm a Jew. I'm quite familiar with the sick logic of 'inferior racial strains'.The reason the celestial beings, otherwise known as angels, are so fixated on racial strains is because the original intention for humanity was that inferior genes would be bred out long ago ...
I'm a Jew. I'm quite familiar with the sick logic of 'inferior racial strains'.
Writing in really big letters does not make the racist drivel any less racist. But, for the record ...Are you really? So to you Tay Sachs is an acceptable gene to have in humanity? Cystic Fibrosis? Diabetes? And I haven't even touched upon them all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders
How come humanity is spending billions of dollars and countless hours of time to eliminate these "inferior racial strains", as you call them, if it's sick logic?
Tay-Sachs disease occurs when the body lacks hexosaminidase A, a protein that helps break down a chemical found in nerve tissue called gangliosides. Without this protein, gangliosides, particularly ganglioside GM2, build up in cells, especially nerve cells in the brain.
Tay-Sachs disease is caused by a defective gene on chromosome 15. When both parents carry the defective Tay-Sachs gene, a child has a 25% chance of developing the disease. The child must receive two copies of the defective gene -- one from each parent -- in order to become sick. If only one parent passes the defective gene to the child, the child is called a carrier. He or she won't be sick, but will have the potential to pass the disease to his or her own children.
Anyone can be a carrier of Tay-Sachs, but the disease is most common among the Ashkenazi Jewish population. About 1 in every 27 members of the Ashkenazi Jewish population carries the Tay-Sachs gene.
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Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים‎‎, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: [ˌaʃkəˈnazim], singular: [ˌaʃkəˈnazi], Modern Hebrew: [aʃkenaˈzim], [aʃkenaˈzi]; also יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכֲּנַז Y'hudey Ashkenaz, "The Jews of Ashkenaz"), are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north.
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In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is one whose ancestry can be traced to the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. For roughly a thousand years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe, despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Human geneticists have identified genetic variations that have high frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews, but not in the general European population. This is true for patrilineal markers (Y-chromosome haplotypes) as well as for matrilineal markers (mitotypes).
This proverb has been in use since at least the mid 16th century. In 1545, William Turner used a version of it in his papist satire The Rescuing of Romish Fox:"Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together." - source
If it's a serious question, start a thread in the Judaism DIR.It's a simple question Jay, and I guess it could relate to the OP, if there's no racial element, why is there an emphasis on Maternal lineage?
If it's a serious question, start a thread in the Judaism DIR.
Writing in really big letters does not make the racist drivel any less racist. But, for the record ...... please show me where science has defined the Ashkenazi Jewish population as a race.
You may wish to start here ...But perhaps to someone awash in Urantia 'reasonng', everything is viewed through the lens of race, racial strains, and racial purity.
And what is the racial make up of the Jews? Uh, lets see, there is some white, some more white, and, uh, well, it's all white
It doesn't mean, non-white. It means "Eastern". Are you saying that Eastern people are a different racial group than white?
And did these Eastern Jews intermarry with other "racial" groups?
When people say "White" they usually mean Caucasian, which likely has Scythian-Caucusus roots. Mizrahi Jews are not very light skinned as a whole and their features are quite different than most "Caucasians". And even Ashkenazi Jews, who are invariably genetically similar to Mizrahis and Sephardim, are much different looking than most "Whites". I can often spot a fellow Ashkenazi on sight. So yes, both Eastern and "Western" Jews are indeed a different racial group than "Whites". However, I have my opinions on Danes and Jutes and Saxons that they may in fact be the descendents of European interbreeding.
They were most probably just as isolated and fiercely anti-interbreeding as my Ukrainian Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors. The phenemonon of interbreeding on a large scale is a very recent concept.
So some Jews migrated to the east in ancient times and interbred with those outside of their racial group?
Isn't that against the Jewish tradition of maintaining racial purity?