Comments on: Video of Virgin Birth Talk Uploaded

By: MSH

MSH — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:53:14 +0000

you’re welcome!

By: Stephanie Burton

Stephanie Burton — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:05:59 +0000

Great Presentation!! Dr Heiser,

It allowed me to better understand what I am currently studying in an Isaiah class. We truly live in wonderful times, which allow all to see and learn more about His (that is of God’s) Words and works. Thank you again for creating this.

It was very straightforward and right to the point. God Bless Everyone.

Stephanie O. B.

By: blop2008

blop2008 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:52:08 +0000

I just watched this one and I really like it. I’ll be watching the 4th video later this week. Kudos.

By: MSH

MSH — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:54:30 +0000

@Alexandros Katechis: yes; good note on the “saying” comment.

By: Alexandros Katechis

Alexandros Katechis — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:29:17 +0000

Dr. Heiser, I am amazed at how well you break down the text and find clues to explain verses, insomuch that I don’t call it exegesis, but Biblical Forensics!

I thought you made a great point about Matthew speaking at some point during the apostles’ time with Jesus, and it does seem logical to expect that at one point or another, Mary would have told of the miraculous birth. Perhaps that is how the writers knew of Jesus’ early life, for example in Luke 2, when Jesus was “lost” and his parents were looking for him, and found him in the temple, and Jesus replied that he was about his Father’s business. It’s interesting that Luke makes it a point, in verse 50, “And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.”

By: MSH

MSH — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:55:53 +0000

@Chris: There are certainly instances of deliberate alteration of the Hebrew text against the Hebrew underlying LXX. Deut 32:8 is probably the most famous of these (see my Bib Sac article on this – Deuteronomy 32:8 and the Sons of God – a pre-publication form of it is available on my divine council site: http://www.thedivinecouncil.com. As part of the “textual standardization” of the Hebrew text for the Jewish community ca. 100 AD, the LXX (and its Hebrew basis) became off limits to faithful Jews. This effort coincided (but not by coincidence!) with declaring the two powers in heaven idea a heresy – that will be my next and last video upload sometime after Sunday if you are unfamiliar with that subject). LXX was the Bible of the Christians, and the standardized text produced by the scribes (the Masoretic Text) became the Bible of the Jew.

By: MSH

MSH — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:50:27 +0000

@Rode:

thanks; one more session at church, so at least one more. Maybe I’ll get time during the summer to do some things on my own.

By: Rode

Rode — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:18:25 +0000

These videos are truly amazing…you are a great blessing Dr. Heiser…hope to see more videos soon…..

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:14:01 +0000

Mike – I’ve heard the MT could have been altered a little (very little) in order to further distance the Jewish Tanakh from Christianity, particularly where the NT quotes the OT. This presentation demonstrates we don’t even have to bring that up as we’re on very solid ground with Isaiah 7:14 as it is in the MT.

I’m curious though about what you think of in that debate. Where the MT and LXX have slightly different renderings, do you believe some of that could have been intentional?

By: Jonnathan Molina

Jonnathan Molina — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:09:11 +0000

Sounds like a great place to be on Sundays! I thought it so timely that I’ve recently made a commitment to really study the book of Ephesians and-presto!-mixed in with your videos is a whole series by one of the church’s speakers about Ephesians, so..there you go. I really love that term “secure in his own lack of omniscience”…I’m stealing, er, I mean, borrowing that for myself, lol. Would that all of us would be so inclined.