The Messiah would be a descendant of King David
See Jeremiah 23:5.
There are many Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament that predicted the lineage of the Messiah. In Jeremiah 23:5, as well as in other prophecies, we are told that the Messiah would be a descendant of King David. David ruled over the land of Israel about 1000 years before Jesus was born. Jesus is recorded in the New Testament books of Matthew and Luke as being a descendant of King David.

The line of kings from David would endure forever
See 2 Samuel 7:16 as an example.
There's more than one Messianic prophecy in the Old Testament that predicted that the line of kings that began with King David, about 3000 years ago, would be everlasting or eternal. History shows that most dynasties throughout history, throughout the world, were lucky if they lasted more than a few generations. But, because Jesus is fully God and fully human, he is able to be both eternal and a descendant of King David. Jesus is unique in his ability to fulfill this promise that God had made to David, that his throne would endure forever.

Numbers 1:18"And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old an upward, by their polls

Krayola:

@ Yisraylite

Was Moses hidden in a basket and found by Pharaoh's household?

@lady123- why should a sane person worship one jewish carpental ? What a pity

Krayola:

@ Yisraylite

Was Moses hidden in a basket and found by Pharaoh's household?

Krayola:

@ Yisralite. . U keep taking cheap shots at Christian beliefs. Are u aware the birth story of Moses, the guy u keep trying to claim is your ancestor, was "plagiarized". Yesterday you posted all these "myths" that have lots in common with the Story of Jesus, and go on and on about how your Hebrew Bible "Old testament" is the real deal. . . If u want to discuss/defend your old testament, create a thread and I'll meet you there. We'll see just how related you are to Abraham and Moses and yadi yadi ya.

My changeling mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid. She cast me into the river which rose not over me. The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water. Akki, the drawer of water, took me as his son and reared me. Akki the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener. While I was gardener Ishtar granted me her love, and for four and (fifty?) , years I exercised kingship.

Pastor AIO:

The fact is that almost every other story in Genesis can be found in the mythologies of other peoples all over the world.  These mythological patterns are not to be taken as history yet they are true in a different sense. 

The writers of the old testament were well aware of what they were doing.  They were not trying to lie to people or pull wool over their eyes.  They simply were not writing history per se.  They knew that the story already existed in sumeria and other places.  Furthermore their readers, or listeners, knew that these stories existed already too.  What you've got to think is 'what do the stories symbolise?'.  What are the writers trying to say?

And please I don't want anyone to come with that dry excuse that the devil knew what God was trying to do so he went back in time and planted fake copies of bible stories in other lands around the world. 

That's like saying that the movement for democracy in nigeria was unaware that there was a country called the USA whose political system was called Democracy.  No, they were following the pattern of the USA. 

The writers of the bible were aware of sumerian and Akkadian myths and they deliberately employed them. 

Pastor AIO:

The fact is that almost every other story in Genesis can be found in the mythologies of other peoples all over the world. These mythological patterns are not to be taken as history yet they are true in a different sense.

The writers of the old testament were well aware of what they were doing. They were not trying to lie to people or pull wool over their eyes. They simply were not writing history per se. They knew that the story already existed in sumeria and other places. Furthermore their readers, or listeners, knew that these stories existed already too. What you've got to think is 'what do the stories symbolise?'. What are the writers trying to say?

And please I don't want anyone to come with that dry excuse that the devil knew what God was trying to do so he went back in time and planted fake copies of bible stories in other lands around the world.

That's like saying that the movement for democracy in nigeria was unaware that there was a country called the USA whose political system was called Democracy. No, they were following the pattern of the USA.

The writers of the bible were aware of sumerian and Akkadian myths and they deliberately employed them.

noetic15:

are u insinuating that the biblical version of "events" is a myth?

Pastor AIO:

I'm not insinuating anything.  What I've written is very clear, live and direct.  

Jonah and the Whale is the story of Pisces (yes, the astrological sign).  

noetic15:

Forgive my inability to gasp your point. . . . . does your post answer YES to my question?

Virgin birth

Karna was born to his mother Kunti by his father the solar deity Surya. Karna was born, before his mother's marriage to prince Pandu. When Kunti was young, the sage Durvasa visited her father's palace. She served the sage with utmost care for an entire year. Pleased by her service and hospitality, the sage foresaw her future difficulty after marriage of not having a child through Pandu, and hence granted her a boon to overcome this difficulty. By this boon she could call upon any god of her choice, and beget a child. Out of curiosity, Kunti still being unmarried, decided to test the power of the boon. She invoked the mantra and called Surya. Bounded by the power of the mantra, Surya appeared before her and granted her a son, who was as radiant and robust as Surya himself. This baby was born with an armour ('Kavacha') and a pair of earrings ('Kundala') attached to him. Though Kunti retained her virginity, she was unwilling to face the world as an unwed mother. With the help of her maid(Dasi) DHATRI,She placed the baby Karna in a basket and set him afloat on the holy river Ganga in the hope that he would be taken in by another family.
[edit]Upbringing

The child Karna was found by Adhiratha-- a charioteer of the king Dhritarashtra. He and his wife Radha raised Karna as their own son and named him Vasusena.

One myth of Pisces tells us that Venus and her son Cupid were at the Euphrates River in Syria. Suddenly, Typhœus, who was a dreadful and horrifying monster, appeared and frightened them. Venus and Cupid leaped into the river and changed themselves into two fish to escape danger.

Diognetus of Erythrea says that many Syrians, who live closest to this area, abstained from eating fish so as not to anger the gods and lose protection or to entrap the gods themselves.

ancel:

@Pastor AIO:

Me i no go school o. Can you enlighten us on how Pisces relates to Jonah, and thus back up that claim of yours? This was what I found?!

OEDIPUS

The parents of Oedipus, King Laius and his queen, Jocasta, lived for a long time in childless wedlock. Laius, who longs for an heir, asks the Delphic Apollo for advice. The oracle answers that he may have a son if he so desires; but fate has ordained that his own son will kill him. Fearing the fulfillment of the oracle, Laius refrains from conjugal relations, but being intoxicated one day he nevertheless procreates a son, whom he causes to be exposed in the river Cithaeron, barely three days after his birth. In order to be quite sure that the child will perish, Laius orders his ankles to be pierced. According to the account of Sophocles, which is not the oldest, however, the shepherd who has been intrusted with the exposure, surrenders the boy to a shepherd of King Polybus, of Corinth, at whose court he is brought up, according to the universal statement. Others say that the boy was exposed in a box on the sea, and was

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taken from the water by Periböa, the wife of King Polybus, as she was rinsing her clothes by the shore. 1 Polybus brought him up as his own son.

A very similar legend is the Persian epic of King Darab, told by the poet Firdausi. 2 The last Kiranian Behmen nominated as his successor his daughter and simultaneous wife Humâi; his son Sâsân was grieved and withdrew into solitude. A short time after the death of her husband, Humâi gave birth to a son, whom she resolved to expose. He was placed in a box, which was put into the Euphrates and drifted downstream, until it was stopped by a stone that had been placed in the water by a tanner. The box with the child was found by him, and he carried the boy to his wife, who had recently lost her own child. The couple agreed to raise the foundling. As the boy grew up, he soon became so strong that the other children were unable to resist him. He did not care for the work of his foster father, but learned to be a warrior. His foster mother was forced by him to reveal the secret of his origin, and he joined the army that Humâi was then sending out to fight the king of Rim. Her attention being called to him by his bravery, Humâi readily recognized him as her son, and named him her successor.

When Acrisius heard oracle from Delphi, he was told instead that a child from his daughter is destined to kill him. Acrisius fearing his destiny imprisoned his daughter in a tower. But the god Zeus, appeared in the form of shower of gold, had sex with Danaë (Δανάη).

und that Danaë had given birth to a son, Perseus, Acrisius locked both mother and child in a chest and threw them into the sea. Zeus asked his brother, Poseidon, to guide the chest to the island of Seriphus, where the fisherman Dictys found them. Dictys was a son of Magnes and a naiad nymph, brother of Polydectes. Magnes being a son of Aeolus, would make Dictys and Polydectes Aeolids.

When Perseus grew into a strong young man, Polydectes, who was Dictys' brother, was the king of Seriphus, fell in love with Danaë. Polydectes wanted to marry her, but did not want or like her son, Perseus.

English name Austral Fish
Major
stars alpha Piscis Austrini Fomalhaut magn. 1,2 RA: 22h 57m 39.01s Dec: -29° 37' 19.7"
Description Small constellation of the southern sky, situated to the south of Aquarius.
It contains only one bright heavenly object, Fomalhaut (from Arab, "mouth of the fish", a white-blue star about 22 light-years away. There are then some double stars, among which beta Piscis Austrini, easy to be observed, and gamma Piscis Austrini, more difficult to be separated.

Mythology
and history Eratostenes tells that the Syrian goddess Derceto fell into a lake, where she ran the risk of drowning. But a big fish intervened and brought her to shore: to thank her saver, the goddess the made it sacred and put it among the constellations. For this reason, Hyginus adds, the Syrians never eat any fish, thinking that it is just like a god.

Eratosthenes called this the Great Fish and said that it was the parent of the two smaller fishes of the zodiacal constellation Pisces. Like Pisces, its mythology has a Middle Eastern setting that reveals its Babylonian origin. According to the brief account of Eratosthenes, the Syrian fertility goddess Derceto (the Greek name for Atargatis) is supposed to have fallen into a lake at Bambyce near the river Euphrates in northern Syria, and was saved by a large fish. Hyginus says, in repetition of his note on Pisces, that as a result of this the Syrians do not eat fish but they worship the images of fish as gods. All the accounts of this constellation’s mythology are disappointingly sketchy.

Bambyce later became known to the Greeks as Hieropolis (meaning ‘sacred city’), now called Manbij. Other classical sources tell us that temples of Atargatis contained fish ponds. The goddess was said to punish those who ate fish by making them ill, but her priests ate fish in a daily ritual.

According to the Greek writer Diodorus Siculus, Derceto deliberately threw herself into a lake at Ascalon in Palestine as a suicide bid in shame for a love affair with a young Syrian, Caystrus, by whom she bore a daughter, Semiramis. Derceto killed her lover and abandoned her child, who was brought up by doves and later became queen of Babylon. In the lake, Derceto was turned into a mermaid, half woman, half fish.

Abu Zola:

Hmmm, but could that be real ?