What is this relational connection?>?

Despite the relational connection you are talking about Christians do not seem to relate with their deity otherwise there wouldn't be so much apathy towards him and conversion to Atheism

Your model of "relational connection" fits the Wests Idea of parenthood!

I find that in reality a child needs a stern and strict father who does not contradict himself in order to instill discipline! Those relational connections can come later!

African style father and you stick on the straight path!

Mary and Joseph had never slept together. That is why she is called the Virgin Mary. A child (baby Jesus) was placed in her womb by the Holy Spirit.

Whether impregnated by Joseph or by the Holy Spirit will never change the fact that your savior, the Messiah came out of a 12 year old's v***na (God forgive me)

Were there no 18 year old girls at the time to push out the Messiah into the world?? Why a 12 year old??? Is your God also a pedophile??

You force me to slander Mary to prove my point

You either accept the culture of the time or continue pumping your own foot with bullets with ignorance..

Intellect over ignorance any day any time!!!

serious

You are the one who is ignorant by saying psalms are prophetic words. Let me enlightend you coz they are wha It is called religious poems of many kinds
hymns of praise and worship,prayers for help, protection and salvation,pleas for forgiveness, songs of thanks giving and petitions for punishment of enemies. Got it

The fact of the matter is that the 'teenage' years are modern invention. it's hardly 100 years old and did not appear before the 1920s. Before that girls used to get married as soon as they hit puberty.

So in summary, Muhammad saw, lusted, and commited adultery with Zaynab. That's not where the beef stops. He went on to include in his 'divine revelations' that adoption isn't allowed in Islam. This self-serving revelation was just for purposes of exonerating Muhammad from the obvious incest he was engaging in. Funny the revelation came AFTER he had married Zaynab and the Arabs were wondering how a man who claimed to be a prophet could do so.

...and Zayd ibn Muhammad changed back to Zayd ibn Somebody else... Yet Muhammad had adopted him in public! At the Kaaba! And declared him his son with a right to inheritance! Fungua macho @267!!

Ok cool so if God chose a 12 year old girl to squeeze out your Messiah into the world please let our prophet marry a 9 year old girl in peace..

Please!.. Thank you!

Now for David. I agree with @267. While he wasn't receiving as many revelations, he sure had the gift of prophecy just like his predecessor Saul at some point had. His prophecies are referenced in the NT innumerable times. David sinned. A lot. But he prostrated himself before God in repentance. Infact, Ps 51 is one of the most useful parts of scripture for a repentant heart! He humbled himself before God. Not so for Muhammad! His revelations were mostly self serving as I've illustrated. He would sin and cover up his sins with a 'revelation'.

Now David is a good example of how gracious our God is. He was a sinner, big time. But deep within, he sought the Lord earnestly. He turned back to God and God forgave him. If David was in today's society, I doubt we'd ever forgive him. We'd call him hypocrite(he was a worship leader engaging in all those sins!). We'd refuse to even sing his psalms! Yet God saw the heart, the thrust of Matthew chapter 5 , and approved David saying he was a man after God's own heart!