Robo

[DeweyisOverrated]

Great. Then how do you explain Jesus' brothers born by Mary and Joseph? He wasn't an only child, remember. Good grief, they even found Jesus' brother's coffin a year or two ago (or, at least, what very likely was it, for on it is inscribed 'James, the son of Joseph, brother of Jesus'... apparently, to put a brother's name was very rare.) So it is quite unlikely that Mary was anything of the sort.

Hey, I didn't make up the theory.  And I don't know the exact details of it.  I think it might of had something to do with the fact that that PARTICULAR egg didn't happen to split its chromosomes.  The rest would, which would account for his brother, etc.

[Radical_Dreamer]

of course there's no "possible" way, it was a divine act. Do you think God came down and slept with Mary or something or injected a sperm missle into her gut?

Well, that IS how Herakles was born by Zeus and Alkaleme, or Vali the Avenger by Odin and some princess. The old polytheistic gods were, after all, very human. I suppose that is what makes Christianity different. That, and the fact that Jesus is not made but co-eternal with the Father, not greater nor lesser, not seperate yet distinct. The same could not be said of Vidar, or Herakles, or Perseus, or Sarpedon, or any other children of the gods in old myths.

As far as I know, Christianity is the only religion to deify it's prophet. And since you know the most theology on this board, what is your opinion, accepting that immaculate conception occured: Sexual or asexual reproduction? Bearing in mind that intercourse needn't actually take place for reproduction to be considered sexual.

[Daniel Krispin]

of course there's no "possible" way, it was a divine act. Do you think God came down and slept with Mary or something or injected a sperm missle into her gut?

Well, that IS how Herakles was born by Zeus and Alkaleme, or Vali the Avenger by Odin and some princess. The old polytheistic gods were, after all, very human. I suppose that is what makes Christianity different. That, and the fact that Jesus is not made but co-eternal with the Father, not greater nor lesser, not seperate yet distinct. The same could not be said of Vidar, or Herakles, or Perseus, or Sarpedon, or any other children of the gods in old myths.

As far as I know, Christianity is the only religion to deify it's prophet. And since you know the most theology on this board, what is your opinion, accepting that immaculate conception occured: Sexual or asexual reproduction? Bearing in mind that intercourse needn't actually take place for reproduction to be considered sexual.

Hmmm... a difficult thing to answer. I should have to go with the Creed, which says 'conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary', thus being sexual, if anything.

And Christianity does not deify its prophet, for it does not believe that Jesus was a prophet at all. Some held him to be so in his time, citing him even to be Elijah reborn perhaps. That is the question posed to Peter: who do you say I am? To which Peter replies that he is the Christ, the Son of God. Essentially, though, unless one ascribes to the Arian belief, held to be heretical by all the rest of the Church - and the refutation of being the subject of the council at Nicea - Jesus is not some seperate entity. He IS God, true God, not some spirit born of God, or sent by God.

[ZeaLitY]

The Prometheus Circuit is Robo.

Masato Kato: Anyway, if you have played Trigger, then Prometheus should be very familiar to you. I'm sure a lot of players would make a similar 'big fuss' over the death of such a much-loved friend...

[UraRenge]

Yeah, I wasn't quiet sure if it was Poseidon or Hades...

Funnily enough, Hades isn't the personification of death that he is usually portrayed as.  He's really just Hades's king (yeah, the Underworld is technically called Hades too)  Most people think that cuz of....I dunno.  He is no death itself.  That belongs to Thanatos.

In Greek mythology, Thanatos (θάνατος, "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: Mors). He was a creature of bone-chilling darkness. He was a son of Nyx and twin of Hypnos. He plays little role in the myths. In early accounts he was seen as a very powerful figure armed with a sword, with a shaggy beard and a fierce face. His coming was marked with pain and grief. In later eras, as the transition from life to death in Elysium became a more attractive option, Thanatos was seen as a beautiful young man. Many Roman sarcophagi show him as a winged boy, much like Cupid. Because of his ghastly task, he was very unpopular with both man and gods. He became rather overshadowed by Hades the lord of the dead. Night, the destructive, brought forth a horde of villainous immortals. Thanatos was one of that wretched lot.

EDIT:  just looked at the later pages.  Wow, we got off this dicussion a while ago, didn't we?