Re: survival skills for teenage geeks
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:01:46AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
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> The texts that comprise the Bible never once say Mary was a virgin.
> The King James (mis)translation does. A bunch of Christian
> denominations based on that (mis)translation teach that she was.
> Figure it out. Preferably somewhere else.
The doctrine of the Virgin Birth was universally accepted by Christians,
rightly or wrongly, for good or for ill, more than 1,000 years before
the King James translation of the books of the Bible.
Can this thread please die?
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably
not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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