Why the Bible is true

[Captain Colostomy]

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

You should study the Hebrew a little more, the word translated as virgin or young woman, means exactly that a young woman old enough to marry yet sexually mature. So either translation works here, that's why it's been translated both ways. Other verses using this are Gen. 24:43; Exodus 2:8; Psalm 68:25; Proverbs 30:19; Song of Songs 1:3, 6:8;.
Immanuel could not have been the name of Isaiah's new born son, his wife already had a child, thus she is not a virgin and Isaiah never had a son named Immanuel.

GC

This Rabbi says no...either translation doesn't work, not when there is a specific word for 'virgin', which Izzy doesn't use for this instance-

http://www.outreachjudaism.org/articles/...irgin.html