On Apr 8, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Sigh. Reproduction via union of sperm and egg is sex. It's not meaningful to speak of an asexual pregnancy, and it's impossible for artificial insemination techniques to have existed 2K years ago.
Sure, this is readily apparent to *us*, but back then any pregnancy in concert with an intact hymen would be considered miraculous.
How much knowledge of a hymen was there ca. 2K years ago, though? I mean, did anyone in Galilee even know they existed?
I think it's a real stretch, BTW, to say that a woman who's experienced penetrative anal intercourse is a virgin.
But what would those ancient people think? Would they necessarily know if such a thing occured?
What difference would that make? Ostensibly if the author in Isaiah had said "virgin", he would have meant virgin -- or else scripture can't validly be applied to modern life, since other terms would surely have drifted as much.
Besides that, of course, the word "virgin" wasn't used. There's a big difference between a young woman and a virgin.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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