Johnny Skeptic

My topic question is 'How important is Micah 5:2 to Christians'? Would anyone care to answer it? So far, no one has adequately answered it.

mdarus

It seemed important to the writer of Matthew. He counts it as one of the fulfilled prophecies of the messiah.

If we threw it out, it would mess up a few Christmas carols and make us wonder about the beginning of the gospel of Matthew.

On a general scale of all things important, it may rate as a 2 out of 10. Regarding the authority of Scripture, it would rate a bit higher, difficult to quantify.

Truthfully, the whole book of Micah is relatively unimportant to the average Christian.

FatherMithras

Ridiculous statement. No vaccines, barely any medicine (most of which wasn't even actually useful) more maternal death during childbirth. Bacteria on food, lessknowledge of nutrition, no management of waste (except in select areas) and many many diseases. Simply a farcical statement.

Toto

In general, people were not healthier in those days, but the people who did manage to survive childhood diseases, famines, childbirth, etc., would probably be healthier than the average couch potato today. They ate organic food and got a healthy amount of exercise. It is not ridiculous to think that some of the population would live to ripe old ages.

But it is still seems like a highly contrived explanation of how the gospels might possibly contain some eyewitness testimony.

Steven Avery

Wow.. a sensible statement.. on the forum, no less. There is also the issue of biblical sanitation and food laws that would keep a population healthier.

William Dankenbring (uneven but often interesting) has a reasonable article.

ancient_bible_health_secrets_revealed_today!

btw, a lot of folks have grave doubts whether vaccinations contribute to the overall health and longetivity of our society. And the same can easily be said about the great, great majority of drugs that are being used. The net effect can be seen as very negative.

However, you reversed the issue. My primary explanation was the early date of the Gospels. I only mentioned the longevity issue in response to the contrived idea that Miriam would be 90 and the implied false claim that they had no clear-minded 'ancient ones' in those days. Let's not cart before horse.

Interestingly, Luke begins with the heart of two elderly folks expressed toward Messiah. Simeon and Anna, and Anna is a very active 84.

Shalom,
Steven Avery
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Messianic_Apologetic

Johnny Skeptic

Message to praxeus: I don't suppose that you would be interested in replying to my topic question, would you? If Micah 5:2 is not important to you, please give us a few examples of some fulfilled prophecies that are important to you. If you do not wish to do that in this thread, please start a new thread. I also invite you to start a new thread and state how one can reliably determine the true nature of God. If God is evil, he could easily be masquerading as a good God.

Steven Avery

And don't forget that I should write a new all-purpose-philosophy-scripture-synthesis-thesis in my spare time today.

Anyway, in answer to your thread quesiton, all scripture is important, and all prophetic verses have their own special significance, pointing to Messiah.