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Talking to a friend who attends an “inclusive” church gave me an understanding as to how people can stray so far from the message of the Bible. As they’re going out the door they tell me it doesn’t really matter to them if Mary was a virgin or not. Really? I believe many of our churches have become social clubs or halfway houses for those trying to deal with or maybe justify and become comfortable with their sin. Before I comment further let me quote a reference to the words of Isaiah in Acts 8:31-33 from the Message Bible.
As a sheep led to slaughter, and quiet as a lamb being sheared, He was silent, saying nothing, He was mocked and put down, never got a fair trial.
The eunuch asked Philip who that was talking about. Answer: Jesus, and he came to die for sin.
So was Jesus just a bastard, an illegitimate child? Was Mary a girl that slept around? In those days bed hopping wasn’t as popular as it is today as it was punishable by death. Or was she raped by some frat boy? Was Jesus just another slob on the bus? What then was special about him? Was he a good little boy; did he become an eagle scout? What, what pray tell was significant about Jesus Christ if not his being the offspring of God himself?
The virgin birth is as important as the death and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus hung on a cross between two thieves. If he was just a sinner like me, what did he die for? This thinking is a slap in the face of God.
This inclusive ideology seems to make Christ totally at one with fallen man and therefore his death on the cross has no more meaning than any other death. God could have chosen one of the thieves for the sacrifice for sin. Maybe it’s thought that the bastard Jesus lived this sinless life and that’s what made him a perfect sacrifice.
It’s more likely that no sacrifice is necessary for sin and God just wants you to love everyone the way they are; we can work out our social problems on our own. We don’t need a savior; we can together group save ourselves. A Marvel comic book would be a better source for their belief system. The heroes and villains are obvious in the comics; there is no god; we are intelligent, we know right from wrong.
It gets back to the lie Eve believed and I’ll paraphrase: You can know good from evil, God doesn’t want you to know everything, you won’t die from the choices you make. God lied to you. You don’t need him.