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Does Isiah 7:14 really foretell the virgin birth of Jesus? I do not think so. The idea that Jesus was born to a virgin is easily refuted with facts and logic.
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you know that concept where people talk
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about Jesus being born to a virgin
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it's pretty much Christianity 101 one of
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the first things they teach you when you
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dive into the religion or as some
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Christians will promptly remind you the
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relationship
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now there are loads of Christian groups
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out there with all sorts of beliefs but
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the whole idea of Jesus being born from
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a virgin that's one thing that's pretty
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consistent across the board I've been
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around in the Christian circles for
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quite a while and I never once came
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across anyone saying well me and my
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church mates do not believe Jesus was
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born of a virgin
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you know like they argue about the
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Sabbath and other ideas now if you
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firmly believe in the Virgin birth of
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Christ brace yourself for some
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challenging thoughts
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I stumbled upon this pretty intriguing
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argument that well Jesus might not have
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been born from a virgin let me break it
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down for you
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I've got three points that made me
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rethink this whole thing so there's this
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verse Isaiah 7 14 that's linked to
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Jesus's virgin birth like the writer of
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Matthew went ahead and said Yep this is
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where it was predicted that Jesus would
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be born from a virgin
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but hold on a second that's not exactly
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accurate
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here's the deal in that Isaiah bit
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there's this King ahaz dude who's a bit
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freaked out about these rival Kings
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plotting against him he's basically
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looking for a sign from the big guy
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upstairs assuring him that things will
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be okay
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Isaiah steps in with a sign a way for
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ahaz to know when God's going to take
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care of those plotting Kings now Isaiah
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is like check it out there's this young
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woman who's pregnant she's going to have
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a son and before that kid can even tell
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right from wrong those Troublesome Kings
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will be history
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long story short this whole prophecy was
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meant to give ahaz some comfort but
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here's the twist Jesus wasn't born for
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another 700 years what may I ask is the
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point of a prophecy that takes almost a
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millennium to come true
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how is this supposed to comfort ahaz who
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was counting down to an invasion
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now here's the second nail in the Virgin
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birth coffin the word virgin in that
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verse is kinda contentious when you dig
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into it turns out the original Hebrew
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word was Alma which really just means a
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young woman
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basically the text speaks nothing of
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virginity it's just talking about a
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young pregnant woman or a young woman
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with child you can actually find this in
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the footnotes of many bibles where
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they're like is it virgin or just young
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woman hmm
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now here's the kicker to the kicker
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isn't it a bit odd that none of the
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other folks writing about Jesus in the
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New Testament not a single Apostle
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thought to mention this super important
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born from a virgin thing
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like not a peep not even casually
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slipping into a conversation
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not Paul not John not Mark not Peter or
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any other figure apart from Matthew and
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Luke
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you know what else is kind of eyebrow
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raising in the world of Judaism nobody
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reads that Isaiah 7 passage and thinks
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aha this is all about the Messiah and
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his miraculous virgin birth nope not at
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all so bottom line this might have been
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about humans sneaking in their ideas for
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reasons only they can articulate it's
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widely agreed that the idea of a virgin
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birth was tacked on later to catch the
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attention of folks who were already into
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stories about God's fathering children
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with virgins AKA pagans
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