A man ahead of his time. source

  • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    24 hours ago

    No one in antiquity would have thought he was born of a virgin, the word used in the original greek is parthenos, which also just means young woman. The virgin reading is just a translation error afaik.

    • RattlerSix@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      And it’s about a completely different woman than Mary anyway. The prophet says “Look, the woman is pregnant, it will be a boy named Emmanuel and before he is a few years old this war will be over” and some idiot was like “This is definitely talking about Jesus”