(May 1, 2014 at 4:05 pm)Laza Wrote: I read that there could gave been a mistake during the translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek. The word Almah has a few possible meanings in Hebrew, one of which is a virgin , but then another is just a young woman. They chose the word virgin. So it could all be just a mistranslation of the texts.It certainly has led to a weird arrangement, where for some reason the fact of her virginity matters. Would the act of heavenly insemination of the soul of god into a woman's uterus be any less miraculous if she wasn't a virgin? Would having already experienced sex have made her "impure" and incapable of receiving the GodFetus? Was god afraid that Joseph would mock him for "getting my sloppy seconds"?
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-Stephen Jay Gould
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