Was the ‘virgin’ birth symbolic?

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
T

TrueFire

Banned
#41
Feb 7, 2015
45
0
0
#41
tribesman said:
You are Messenger_of_Fire (you lied when you denied that in post#23, just as you lie when you speak about the topic at hand) and soon you will be banned again. Bye troll.
Click to expand...
Im no troll. And since you've called me a liar, prove who I am. Or will I be banned because YOU believe I am? That's not in the rules.
 
D

DesiredHaven

Guest
#42
#42
TrueFire said:
Im no troll. And since you've called me a liar, prove who I am. Or will I be banned because YOU believe I am? That's not in the rules.
Click to expand...

I sent your first mail to the administrator
 
D

DesiredHaven

Guest
#44
#44
TrueFire said:
I'll be sure to include your name in the posts I will be sending out when I return. Again I break no rules.
Click to expand...
I state who I am because Im not a banned member, and I have no problem disclosing my mails to the admins either
 
Reborn

Reborn

Senior Member
#45
Nov 16, 2014
4,087
216
63
#45
:) Jesus was born a baby.:)
 
D

DesiredHaven

Guest
#48
#48
Okay signed off

BreathofFire justsigned off wait for it.png
 
Reborn

Reborn

Senior Member
#49
Nov 16, 2014
4,087
216
63
#49
:) What I think is cool, is that Jesus was born on Christmas. What are the odds? :)
 
D

DesiredHaven

Guest
#50
#50
Okay, there you are

TrueFire back on.png
 
D

DesiredHaven

Guest
#51
#51
Reborn said:
:) What I think is cool, is that Jesus was born on Christmas. What are the odds? :)
Click to expand...
I think you are deceived, but I still love you anyway
 
T

TrueFire

Banned
#52
Feb 7, 2015
45
0
0
#52
DesiredHaven said:
You BreathofFire now?

View attachment 99228
Click to expand...
Lol!!! Now every name with "fire" in it is suspicious! Ban them all. Just listen to yourself? Again if I call someone a name, belittle or put down any Christian in any way, then chop me. I'm too old to play around just to do it. I'm on here to serve, learn and teach like everyone else.
 
Reborn

Reborn

Senior Member
#53
Nov 16, 2014
4,087
216
63
#53
DesiredHaven said:
I think you are deceived, but I still love you anyway
Click to expand...

He wasn't???
Then why do we get presents on his birthday?

Just a joke.
Now we are going to go into Him being born in early autumn, depending on how we look/debate at/ the scripture that suggests this?:p
 
D

DesiredHaven

Guest
#54
#54
TrueFire said:
Lol!!! Now every name with "fire" in it is suspicious! Ban them all. Just listen to yourself? Again if I call someone a name, belittle or put down any Christian in any way, then chop me. I'm too old to play around just to do it. I'm on here to serve, learn and teach like everyone else.
Click to expand...
The administrators can figure it out, Im an administrator at my own forum, they know how to do that.
 
D

DesiredHaven

Guest
#55
#55
Reborn said:
He wasn't???
Then why do we get presents on his birthday?

Just a joke.
Now we are going to go into Him being born in early autumn, depending on how we look/debate at/ the scripture that suggests this?:p
Click to expand...
ROFL!!

I so love you....
 
G

GodIsSalvation

Banned
#56
Dec 18, 2013
6,733
45
0
#56
Zmouth said:
If asked if the ‘virgin’ birth was symbolic or literal, how would you respond?

Since some Christians hold some scriptures are symbolic and not literal, do those who hold it literal think it would be a false teaching to the faith to hold it as being symbolic?
Click to expand...
Is both. Mary was literally a virgin that literally conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit of God the Father.

Symbolically, the birth of Christ to the virgin is purity begotten from purity, goodness begotten from goodness, a promise spoken and fulfilled.
 
JaumeJ

JaumeJ

Senior Member
#57
Jul 2, 2011
21,230
6,527
113
#57
The virgen conception and birth hail the perfection of the Son of God.
 
thecreationtutor

thecreationtutor

Senior Member
#58
Jun 30, 2011
2,521
35
0
#58
It's literal, since it's only post-modernists - Rob Bell, Bill Mclaren who talk about this - these are deceived people. who probably grew up in church and "liked" playing church but wanted to play it to their own tune
 
A

Atwood

Senior Member
#59
May 1, 2014
4,995
53
48
#59
crossnote said:
If the virgin birth is not literal then Jesus would have a sin nature. Joseph being sinful would have passed on his sin nature to Jesus through Mary.
Click to expand...
LOL, if the virgin birth is not literal, then we gots to figger out what beez a non-literal virgin or non-literal virgin-birth.

Yes, I agree as to the purpose of the virgin birth. Another matter is the curse of Jeconiah, Joseph being a descendant of Jeconiah who was never to have a physical descendant on the throne.
 
A

Atwood

Senior Member
#60
May 1, 2014
4,995
53
48
#60
Now if you say "the virgin birth is symbolic," shall we then take that assertion itself as also symbolic?
I should take such a statement as symbolic of nonsense.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.