Christians and their Theologians are so strange as to how they see Mr God Incarnate”.
Jesus is supposed to be Omniscient (all knowig), Omnipotent, omni this and omnia that, and “omni” just about everything else. Christianity ays He is God in human form, the Son of God, the Creator “Incarnate”, the Logos Incarnate and a whole lot more.
But so many churchgoers are quite convinced that JC who could run rings around the best Jewish minds in the country, even when He ws only 12 years old, was a clown at geography. He is supposed to be God. But they want you to believe that Jesus did not know where Ethiopia is.
The excuses would be funny if they were not so tragic, and SO DUMB !
Well, . . . . ya know, themz woz primitive unedoocated simple people in dode days, not like us, who had da advantage of going to skool !! Dey thought the earth was flat, and dat Ethiopia was da edge. If you went much further, youse woz gonna fall of da edge . . . You know I admire Jeezu a lot, and trust completely with my eternal soul, but you know, He grew up in a primitive period when dey thought the earth woz flat . . . .
And on nd on the idiocy goes.
I Matthew 12:24 Jesus says plainly that the Queen of the South (i.e. the Queen of Sheba) came from the “ends of the Earth” to meet Solomon. Jesus knew exactly what He was talking about. The young Queen had been on a South Pacific cruise when she heard about the new young king in Jerusalem.
And yes, ships DID travel that far three thousand years ago. “Oral tradition” in the Pacific still retains stories of her being in the region. The Bible confirms the length of the voyages with the information that Solomon’s ships were away from home for three years on their trips.
Yet the “colonial European mindset” thinks that the rest of the Earth had to be primitive before Columus made it to the Caribbean. So people wrotee stories about Solomon’s mines being in East Africa. Seriously, just about anybody could sail something as small as a bathtub from the Gulf of Aqba to Kenya and back in way less than three years !!
The girl got all inspired and hopeful about meeting Solomon. If the legends are true, somewhere along the way she decided that she was not going directly home. She was “detouring” to Jerusalem. She was going to arrive there with a botload of “goodies” from South East Asia as presents. If the king was as great as the descriptions of him, she was not planning to leave Jerusalem until she had a child from Solomon growing in her.
Legend has it that she got her wish. The modern Ethiopian royal fmily is claimed to be descended from both her and Solomon.
The point of the story is that Jesus’ words can be trusted. Who are you going to believe, the Messiah, Son of God, Son of David, God in human form, or some theologin who thinks that Jesus was a dumbo who thought the Earth was flat. Ancient people knew the radius of the Moon (1080 miles). That is why they still ring the gong 108 times on the Lunar New Year. The Biblical figure for the average lunar month is better than NASA’s estimate, better than the ESA’s estimate. Jesus would have known the figure (29 days 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3.333 . seconds. He knew the Earth was round, just like the Moon. He knew where Ethiopia was too.
His parents probably hid out among the Jewish academics at the research library in Alexandria in Egypt. Contrary to “myth” Joseph was not just a simple carpenter. He was highly educated. That is why he was selected as Mary’s husband. She had been identified as the likely mother of the future messiah. So she was given a high grade education. She was matched with a scholar who was older than she was, with the intent that they would train the messiah.
Joseph’s “day job” was as some sort of builder/carpenter. But he got the “job” as Mary’s husband because of his knowledge and scholarship.
Things “went haywire” when Mary was found to be pregnant before the wedding. That much made it into the Gosepls. But Maria was not some Galilean Cinderella washing floors and saying rosaries to herself all day and night. She was, like her oustanding son Jesus, brilliant, and highly educated.
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