WAS JESUS CHRIST BORN OF A VIRGIN?
It is written in the writings of the old Christian
writers, called Church Fathers, that in the
first centuries of the Christian Era existed the Ebionites, who were considered
heretics by the Christians,
because they obeyed all the commandments of The Law of God, and that The Bible
of the Ebionites was composed only by the books of the Tanach (Old Testament),
and that they used only one gospel, written
in Hebrew, that was considered to be the Gospel according to Matthew.
We see in Matthew 5:17-19 that Jesus Christ (Yeshua haMashiach) said that
he did not come to abolish The Law of God (Torah), and that we must obey all
the commandments of the Law of God, without exception, and that none
commandment of the Law of God will ever be abolished.
Therefore, we see that the true followers
of Jesus Christ (Yeshua haMashiach) were the Ebionites, and that in fact
the Christians are the heretics.
So, the true Bible is the Bible
of the Ebionites, which is composed only by the books of the Tanach (Old
Testament), and the true history of Jesus Christ
is in the gospel that was used by the Ebionites,
that is the authentic text of the
Gospel according to Matthew.
For more details on this, see the following page:
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/the_true_followers.htm
Researching about the Ebionites, in the writings of the Church Fathers, we see that the Gospel that they
used, although it was identified as being the Gospel according to Matthew, was not
exactly equal to the Gospel according to Matthew which is used by the Christians, because it was considered by
the Christians as being incomplete,
corrupted and mutilated.
Many of the old Christian writers,
called Church Fathers, wrote that the Gospel
according to Matthew was originally written in Hebrew, and that the Gospel
according to Matthew which was used by the Ebionites was written in Hebrew.
Many manuscripts of the Gospel according to Matthew in Hebrew were found,
and it is possible to buy the Gospel according to Matthew in Hebrew of Shem
Tov, in the site
http://www.fetchbook.info/compare.do?search=0865544425
and it is possible to see the text of the Gospel according to Matthew of Du
Tillet in the following site:
http://www.torahresource.com/DuTillet/DuTilletHebOnly.pdf
Since the Gospel according to Matthew which was used by the Ebionites did
not contain everything that is contained in the Gospel according to Matthew
which is used by the Christians, it is
necessary to discern which are the passages of the Gospel according to Matthew
that are authentic, and which are the passages of the Gospel according to
Matthew which were added by the Christians.
It is also necessary to discern which
is the authentic text of the Gospel according to Matthew, because there are
many variant readings, as in the Hebrew text, as in the Greek version, and in
the old Syriac version, and in the old Latin version, and in other versions.
In order to distinguish which is the authentic text of each passage of the
Gospel according to Matthew, and to distinguish which are the passages that
were added by heretics, we must apply the following criterions:
It is written in Matthew 5:17-19 that Jesus Christ said that he did not
come to abolish the Law and the Prophets. Therefore, all the acts and words of
Jesus Christ must be in accordance with the Tanach (Old Testament). So, among
the variant readings found in the old manuscripts, must be adopted that which
is more in accordance with the Old Testament (the Tanach), and the passages of
the Gospel according to Matthew that contradict what is in the Old Testament
(Tanach) are passages that were added by heretics and, therefore, must be
removed.
With base in these criterions, I restored the
authentic text of the Gospel according to Matthew.
You can see the authentic text of the Gospel
according to Matthew in the next page:
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/matthew.htm
And you can see the authentic text of the Gospel
according to Matthew in Hebrew in the following page:
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/bessorah.htm
About this subject, see the following page:
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/which_is_the_authentic_text.htm
For informations about the Ebionites, see the next pages:
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/church_fathers.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/links_ebionites.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/links_gospel_ebionites.htm
The books of the New Testament are not parts of the canon of the Bible of the true followers of Jesus Christ (Yeshua
haMashiach), and are not inspired by God, because they have satanic
passages, that induce the people to think that it is not necessary to obey some
of the commandments of God, or that induce people to
have Jesus Christ as their god, thus violating the commandment of God, who
said: "Thou shalt not have other gods in front of me" (Exodus 20:3),
or that induce people to think that Jesus Christ is
God Himself, thus contradicting what God said in Deuteronomy 6:4, where it
is written: "Hear, Israel, Yahveh Our God, Yahveh is one".
About the allegation that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, it is the following:
Searching about the Ebionites, we see that the Ebionites did not believe in
the divinity of Jesus Christ, neither in the
virginal birth of Jesus Christ, and that they said that Jesus Christ was
begotten by Joseph, normally, and we see also that in the Gospel according to
Matthew that was used by the Ebionites there was not the story about the
virginal birth of Jesus Christ.
In the Gospel according to Matthew which is used by the Christians, in chapter 1, verses 16 to 25,
it is told that Jesus was born of a virgin, to accomplish what is written in
Isaiah 7:14, where, as it is there, is written: “Behold, the virgin shall be
with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name
Immanuel".
However, in the original Hebrew text of the book of Isaiah, it is written
"Behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call
his name Immanuel".
The Hebrew word that the Christians
translate as “virgin” is the word “almah”, which means “young woman”, “lass”.
Beyond that, reading the chapters 7 and 8 of the book of Isaiah, we see
that the boy mentioned in Isaiah 7:14 would be born soon after the date in
which the prophecy was said, and that before that boy know to reject the evil
and to choose the good, the land of Syria and the Land of Samaria (Kingdom of
Israel, that is, Kingdom of the North) would be forsaken, and the verse Isaiah
7:16 shows it very clearly, and the verses 2 Kings 15:29 and 2 Kings 16:9 also
show very clearly that everything that is said in Isaiah 7:14-16 was fulfilled
in that same epoch, in a short period of time.
Therefore, we see that the verse Isaiah 7:14 does not refer to the Messiah,
and does not say that a virgin would conceive, but says that a young woman
would conceive, and we see also that that prophecy was fulfilled in the time of
the prophet Isaiah.
And the verse Isaiah 8:18 shows that the sons of the prophet Isaiah were
used by God for signals and prodigies, and this demonstrates that the boy
mentioned in Isaiah 7:14 was a son of the prophet Isaiah, what is also seen in
Isaiah 8:3-4.
Therefore, we see that the story of the virginal birth of Jesus Christ is
totally false.
In the manuscript Syrus Sinaiticus, of the Old Syriac Version, in Matthew
1:16, it is written that Joseph begot Jesus, and in a book of unknown author,
of the century V, called Dialogus Timothei et Aquilae, it is also written that
Joseph begot Jesus, and in this book is also written that in the Gospel
according to Matthew it was written that Joseph begot Jesus, and that only in
apocryphal books it was written the text with the story of the virginal birth,
which appears in the text of the Gospel according to Matthew which is used by
the Christians.
Beyond that, in the manuscripts Θ and Φ, of
the Greek version, and in the manuscripts a, g1, k and q of the Old Latin
Version, the text of Matthew 1:16 is as follows: “And Jacob begot Joseph, to
whom was engaged the virgin Mary, begot Jesus, the called Christ”, which shows
that in these manuscripts the text became truncated, because they did the
amendment to introduce the fable of the virginal birth, but were retained the
words “begot Jesus”, of the original text, which was “Joseph begot Jesus”.
Therefore, we see that the story of the virginal birth of Jesus Christ was
invented afterwards, and was interpolated in the Gospel according to Matthew.
Beyond that, the passages 2 Samuel 7:12-16 and 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 and
Psalms 89:20-38 show that God had said that the Messiah would be of the seed of
David, and Joseph was descendant of David, as we see in the genealogy that is
in the beginning of the Gospel according to Matthew, where it is written the
genealogy from David to Joseph, so that, if Jesus Christ was not begotten by
Joseph, he would not be of the seed of David and, therefore, could not be the
Messiah (Mashiach).
This shows that is false the story of the supposed virginal birth of Jesus the
Nazarene, which was unfairly added by the Christians
in the Greek version of the Gospel according to Matthew.
Beyond that, God is not carnal, so that it does not make sense to say that
God rendered pregnant a woman.
Everything indicates that the Christians
created the myths of the divinity of Jesus Christ and of the virginal birth of
Jesus Christ, influenced by the Paganism, because in the heathen religions
there are myths about gods that incarnate in men, who are called avatars in the
Hinduism, and myths about demigods, sons of a god with a woman, as is the case
of Heracles, or Hercules, in the Greco-Roman mythology.
Thank God, the informations about the Ebionites were registered in the
books of the Church Fathers, and thus we can
know that are false the doctrines of the virginal birth of Jesus Christ and of the divinity of Jesus Christ, and thus we are
liberated from committing the sin of polytheism.
Yahveh bless you.
João Paulo
Fernandes Pontes.
Published in November 12, 2007.
Updated in December 16, 2011.
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