XPost: sac.politics, can.politics, alt.atheism   
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   From: talishi@example.net   
      
   On 06/05/2015 03:17 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:   
   > So Isaiah 7 (the reference in question)  isn't even referring to   
   > Jesus, and  if the bizarre idea of a virgin birth were found in this   
   > passage, it would refer to the child that King Ahaz knew about that   
   > Isaiah was threatening him with, and not to Jesus.   
      
   The problem arose when the Jews in Alexandria translated the Hebrew   
   "Alma" (young woman) to Greek.  They settled on "Parthenos" which is   
   "virgin".   Christianity is the result of an ancient Telephone Game.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)