Dear, Red Pen Logic

Dear,
Red Pen Logic

I find it amazing what you said about Christmas. I completely believe you, too. Is Jesus becoming more real to you? He's becoming more real to me, too. The more I dig, the more I find out that Atheist's claims are completely bunk.

But, a good answer I used to give---specifically about the Virgin birth of other gods---was that God winked at humanity through other mythologies. Like Virgil's Aenid is supposed to be very similar to Christian morality. So through everything else.

The fact that Christ's birth would be virgin is predicted in Isaiah 7---I think the Jews changed the meaning of the word ex post facto, as in Zechariah 6 the word for "Sprout" they turned into Chametz. Ironically, in Zechariah 3 and 6 it has such a complete exposition on the Gospel, that it's more convincing than Isaiah 53. You should check it out sometime. It literally names Jesus as the Messiah. "Joshua" in Hebrew is the word "Jesus" in Greek. So, it literally names Yeshua as the Messiah in those two chapters.

But, the fact that other mythologies would claim divine virgin births, as I was explained by G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, was what Paul was explaining at the Sermon on Mars Hill. God interacted with other cultures indirectly. It was just that the full revelation of God would come through the Jews and their heritage. Finally culminating into the Birth, Death and Resurrection of the Messiah. Where we'd get the pure version of What God had for Man. It wasn't interpreted through prophets---though I believe Jesus, in His secret teachings to the disciples, would quote verbatim Paul's letters and even the Old Testament.

Just some food for thought. Thank you for the Christmas Present! It's now us who are the intellectual heavyweights. We're now the underdogs, and that's why we're beginning to find truth. We're just as convincing as the Atheists were ten years ago. Don't forget it. They've been sufficiently beaten, but that's also why they're on top. He who is first is last, and he who is last is first. We're now the intellectual force. We're now the voice of reason. We're now what liberals and atheists were ten years ago. Just as grating and secretly convincing. Remember that.

Sincerely,
B. K. Neifert