An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels Immaculate Conception

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It’s astonishing that two of the Gospels, Mark and John, make no reference whatsoever to the mysterious, allegedly miraculous birth of Jesus. The Old Testament took great pride in exploring the origins of its great heroes, from Adam to Abraham, Isaac, Esau, and David. Nor is the Virgin Birth and conception touched on in the Apostle related Acts, Letters or the Book Of Revelations. It seems odd that such a big miracle is ignored by most commentators. It may therefore be that the conception of Jesus was less than extra-ordinary, possibly even a straight forward case of illegitimacy, or less likely, material written by John & Mark was lost from the records as handed down to us today. You would expect a virgin conception to be at least worth mentioning in passing. Imagine it happened today and only one news broadcast mentioned it, briefly. It would be major sensational headline news everywhere. As it stands, Matthew and Mark offer deeply conflicting accounts of the origins of the living God. Both offer painstaking bloodline evidence of Joseph’s linage, which don’t match one another and which are rendered irrelevant anyway as Joseph is not seen as being Jesus’s father anyway – God, in the form of the Holy Ghost, impregnates Mary, whose bloodline is not provided for us. Jesus has no link whatsoever to the Old Testament patriarchs, kings and prophets. That Joseph is a 14th generation descendant from King David is irrelevant as Mary is not part of that bloodline. Six months after a woman called Elizabeth gets pregnant despite being barren, and carries the yet to be born John The Baptist, this even more bizarre pregnancy commences. A God is about to be conceived by a woman who remains a virgin. The archangel Gabriel goes (presumably by flight of wing) to Galilee and its major town, Nazareth. He calls on Mary, not yet the wife of Joseph, but betrothed to him. Gabriel tells Mary what is expected of her, and even names Jesus for her. He adds the name Immanuel, or Emmanuel (amusing to anyone thinking of movies starring porn star Sylvia Krysta) Mary seems quite perturbed, especially when told that the father will not be Joseph but the Holy Ghost. We don’t see the ghost’s strange sexless invasion of Mary’s womb take place. We are just told it has happened. Mary is now carrying the unborn Messiah. Luke makes no effort to show Joseph being told of all this. Matthew has Joseph told of Mary’s pregnancy by Gabriel. I suspect Mary trying to convince him that her act of adultery was not just with some mortal man would be less likely to succeed. Joseph is not yet married to Mary in Matthew’s narrative, and now plans to marry her to spare her from disgrace and then get a quiet divorce from her later on. We are not told if he does so or not. By human standards however, the wedding to Joseph is a sham and a blatant lie – Jesus is illegitimate. If Joseph did divorce Mary later it is after they made love. (Matthew Verse 1-25) Mary was to give Jesus two brothers, James and Jude. Mary was not destined to stay virginal all her life. This is a statement from the Bible that the various Christian churches dumb down on. They try to suggest she was a virgin all her life – a basis for the whole virginal convent existence of Catholic nuns for example – all based on lies. In Mathew an un-named angel tells Joseph that his wife was impregnated by God through the Holy Ghost before their marriage when Joseph is contemplating a quiet divorce. In Luke, the Angel (named directly as Gabriel) warns Mary that the conception is imminent. Matthew does not tell us if Mary was notified or given a chance to consent to the conception by the Holy Ghost, so she might actually have been raped by God the Incubus. Mary’s age is not given either so whether she was what we might now call under-age is not questioned either. Another major factor in the Virgin Conception is the part played by the Holy Ghost, the third aspect of the Holy Trinity alongside God the Father and Jesus The on. God doesn’t bother making love to Mary but sends his sperm out as a living, separate entity to find its own way. To most men, actually being there for the sexual exchanges is regarded as ‘the best bit’. God apparently preferred not to be directly involved. Why? He was happy to wrestle with Jacob a himself, but unwilling to directly participate in getting a woman pregnant with himself. The Holy Ghost would later be the entity touching people at the instant they converted to Christianity and cast aside their previous beliefs. Christians often think of the Virgin Birth, but strictly speaking, the birth of Jesus is quite conventional, despite its unusual setting. The miraculous Virginal part is the immaculate conception, the instant of impregnation without sex, using the Holy Ghost as a form of artificial insemination. For Jesus to have been allegedly born on December 25th, he was conceived in Late March the same year. Arthur Chappell