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Originally Posted by photon
I'm interested as well, though as I pointed out the whole idea of original sin and consequently the virgin birth facilitating Jesus going to heaven wasn't developed until hundreds of years later.. that's a lot of Christians who apparently weren't really Christians (including Paul I guess?).
Given that the author of Matthew quotes from Isiah, and his use of "virgin" from Isiah is from an incorrect Greek translation of the Hebrew, I'd say that's a pretty good point to start from to say that the virgin birth is nothing more than one gospel writer's attempt to ensure his narrative to fit his perception of prophecy. This is the same author who had Jesus riding into Jerusalem on two donkeys where the other gospels only mention one because of an incorrect reading of prophecy (or I guess it could have been changed by a scribe from the original).
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Everyone now knows that Jesus probably rode in on a dinosaur.
