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Re: Pentecost responses (virgin birth)
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To: John Richards <jhr@elidor.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Pentecost responses (virgin birth)
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From: scott@geom.umn.edu
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:37:44 CDT
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Cc: b-greek@virginia.edu
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In-Reply-To: <8875@elidor.demon.co.uk>; from "John Richards" at Jul 22, 94 7:00 pm
> 3. The motive of fulfilling the "prophecy" alone explains the idea, the
> prophecy itself based on a mistranslation and a misunderstanding.
I am aware that the word translated "virgin" in the passage in
Isaiah does not actually mean chaste. I've always thought though,
that the promise made to Eve at the fall:
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.
was another prophecy of a virgin birth because ever other place
in scripture where "seed" is mentioned, it is provided by a man
and never by a woman. It seems to me that it is very surprising
that the story was told this way when it seems to contradict the
outward physical nature of the production of a child (I'm assuming
that at that time, they had no knowledge of the egg that a woman
contributes to the beginning of life).
Scott S. Bertilson