DennisTate
Active Member
Young woman.
I'd like to point out that the Septuagint uses the word parthenos to refer to Dinah, a victim of rape (not a virgin).
I challenge you, based on the fact that Dinah is called "parthenos" in Genesis 34:3, to find any English translation of the Bible that uses the word "virgin" in Genesis 34:3.
Interesting........
I am not the typical Christian or Messianic Gentile Noahide.....
I do not believe in the Orthodox Christian view of the "Virgin Birth."
I take very seriously the ideas expressed by a near death experiencer who was somehow
connected with one of the other children of Mary and Joseph......
Judas Didymus Thomas, (Doubting Thomas)....
His impression of what his mom from that lifetime did.... was
obey the Holy Spirit and go sleep with Joseph, while they were still merely engaged......
not yet one hundred percent married.......
The Essene Jewish engagement rituals were far more serious
than full fledged weddings in 99% of cultures.....
so I believe that the Holy Spirit doing this set the stage for
the Messianic Jewish / Messianic Gentile movement of the first and second centuries.....
to be sufficiently divorced from the Essenes... that they could reach out to Gentiles.......
much as the modern Noahide Movement does a basically great job of doing.......
We are going into the time of.....
Zechariah 8:23
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you."
This is the book that can get a significant percentage of potential
Christian Noahides out of the supposedly orthodox Virgin Birth doctrine.....
that obviously is an issue preventing Christians from becoming Noahides.....
The Thomas Book
If you click on the link...."Search Inside" and go to around page sixty or so... you will find Bruce F. MacDonald Ph. D's write up on this......