I guess I've started a little series on false teacher quotes and the ramifications some of these quotes have on the Biblical doctrine of forgiveness. My last post looked at some of the tripe that Marcus Borg serves up at numerous speaking engagements and book writings. Today I want to examine one of the latest heretic flavors of the month...Rob Bell. Here is one of a multitude of blasphemous utterings from Bell...
"What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry’s tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was really just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births?
But what if, as you study the origin of the word “virgin” you discover that the word “virgin” in the gospel of Matthew actually comes from the book of Isaiah, and then you find out that in the Hebrew language at that time, the word “virgin” could mean several things. And what if you discover that in the first century being “born of a virgin” also referred to a child whose mother became pregnant the first time she had intercourse?"
-Velvet Elvis, p. 26
In Luke chapter 1, verse 27, we see the word "virgin" used in reference to our Savior. Dr. Strong in his Exhaustive Concordance says the word means a "marriageable woman, a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with a man". I guess Rob Bell was using some other scholarly source huh? Virgin has pretty much always mean't what we have always thought it to mean. You might be wondering why it's such a big deal. I mean, after all, where is my compassion and tolerance right? Well when it comes to the Scriptural record as to the person and work of Jesus Christ it is a big deal. You see if Jesus was not born of a virgin then He was not God. If He was not God then He couldn't have presented Himself a sacrifice for our sins and He couldn't have risen from the dead. If He didn't rise from the dead then we are of all people most miserable!!!
I Corinthians 15
17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
"What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry’s tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was really just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births?
But what if, as you study the origin of the word “virgin” you discover that the word “virgin” in the gospel of Matthew actually comes from the book of Isaiah, and then you find out that in the Hebrew language at that time, the word “virgin” could mean several things. And what if you discover that in the first century being “born of a virgin” also referred to a child whose mother became pregnant the first time she had intercourse?"
-Velvet Elvis, p. 26
In Luke chapter 1, verse 27, we see the word "virgin" used in reference to our Savior. Dr. Strong in his Exhaustive Concordance says the word means a "marriageable woman, a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with a man". I guess Rob Bell was using some other scholarly source huh? Virgin has pretty much always mean't what we have always thought it to mean. You might be wondering why it's such a big deal. I mean, after all, where is my compassion and tolerance right? Well when it comes to the Scriptural record as to the person and work of Jesus Christ it is a big deal. You see if Jesus was not born of a virgin then He was not God. If He was not God then He couldn't have presented Himself a sacrifice for our sins and He couldn't have risen from the dead. If He didn't rise from the dead then we are of all people most miserable!!!
I Corinthians 15
17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
You see, Rob Bell has the same problem that Dr. Borg has, he just doesn't see the Bible as the Word of God. He's got lot's of degrees and earthly accomplishments but he just doesn't grasp what is truly important.
Ever learning, ever piling up degrees, ever writing books, ever speaking at conferences, ever blaspheming and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. How do these false teachers recite the Apostle's Creed every Sunday? "He was born of the Virgin Mary"...Amen! Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... John 14:1-6. He is the only way to Heaven and the only escape from Hell (Bell doesn't believe in Hell either, more on that in a later post!). Dear Reader, steer clear of such wolves! Come to Jesus in child-like faith today. Watch the little video in the right sidebar and let me know what you have decided. Come to Christ!
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