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Old 07-23-2002, 06:36 AM   #1
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Sorry if it's an old chestnut (I'm quite new here so don't know what's been covered in the last few years) but isn't it a bit daft to believe in the Virgin Birth?
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("daft" is such a great English word - especially said with a Yorkshire accent!

please excuse the off-topic comment )
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A lot of teen age girls have tried that story over the years and it hasn't held water. But the same people still go along with the biblical BS. It's absolutely amazing. The only way a virgin gets pregnant is via artificial insemination. I doubt that was part of the technology back then.

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Actually I pronounce it DARFT because I'm only a pretend Yorkshire person.
Doens't alter the fact, though, that I am pretty much bemused by the Virgin Birth thing
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God works in mysterious ways. Who are you to question our Creator?!
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Yes it is daft. Even dafter would be to believe that the Christian virgin birth really happened, but the virgin births in the myths of other cultures did not.
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Aren't all babies born virgins?

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The funny thing is that Christians didn't even believe it until hundreds of years after Christ's death, when it was that story was borrowed from other religious folklore and added to the collection of Christian stories.
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Quote:
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<strong>Aren't all babies born virgins?

Brian</strong>
In a couple of places around here I have my doubts.

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<strong>The funny thing is that Christians didn't even believe it until hundreds of years after Christ's , when it was that story was borrowed from other religious folklore and added to the collection of Christian stories.</strong>
Yo ho, the Gospels were written around 130 AD.
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