/lit/ - Literature

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There is a very deliberate restatement of the elements of the old testament in the new, for example Jesus is born in a manger in Bethlehem because there was no room in the inn which is a deliberate call back to Genesis 18 and the story of Lot and a censor of contemporary Jewish morality as Abraham fed and housed two men who he had never seen before while the Jews of Bethlehem would not house a member of their own tribe and his pregnant wife.


The virginity of the blessed Mary is a restatement of the power of God to create, as Philo of Alexanderia ( In On creation Paragraph 45 & 46 http://earlyjewishwritings.com/text/philo/book1.html))

God tells us in the genesis narrative that he created and gave life to the plants before he created the sun in order to show that his power was not dependent on preliminary factors. that he could do what ever he wants and that he his not bound a reality which he created. Hence the virgin birth is a reminder of God's omnipotence and his ultimate control over the very fabric of reality.
while The bible is a product of the inspiration of the holy ghost, a being to whom all our rational scientific certainties are little more dreams which have no objective reality.

Keep in mind that the bible is 1 allegory and 2 a product of the oriental mentality that values a insight into universal principles rather that objective fact see Rene geuon's introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines for further clarification. Dont think of what you read as literal fact but as pointing towards a deeper meaning.