From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Jun 09 1999 - 23:09:39 MDT
Vanessa Yaremchuk wrote:
> > Yeah, I've always thought that whole immaculate conception thing is most
> > amusing. Imagine Joseph's face when Mary comes home sprogged up claiming
> > some crusty deity did it.....bollocks....Joseph would chop her up.
>
> Supposedly, the original text of the bible uses a word that could be
> translated as "young woman". It was later translated/interpretted as
> "virgin".
True Venessa. The term can mean either young woman or virgin, but
under the circs, there is no reason to believe the writer meant virgin. The
conception referred to in that passage presumably came about in the
traditional manner. spike
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