02-19-2011, 11:12 AM
Shlama,
Well ok, what about the virgin birth then?
How should that be understood? Virgin conception, or virgin birth?
How about Luke 1:34
"And Mariam said to the angel, How shall this be, because a man is not known to me?"
OF Course she -knew- some guys! But she simply was a virgin, so, she could not beget a baby. That was her most logical thought.
So, I personally think this is just Semitic idiom, as the dictionary (Payne Smith) says as well for 'sexual intercourse'.
Well ok, what about the virgin birth then?
How should that be understood? Virgin conception, or virgin birth?
How about Luke 1:34
"And Mariam said to the angel, How shall this be, because a man is not known to me?"
OF Course she -knew- some guys! But she simply was a virgin, so, she could not beget a baby. That was her most logical thought.
So, I personally think this is just Semitic idiom, as the dictionary (Payne Smith) says as well for 'sexual intercourse'.