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Unmasking Christian Falsehood
Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin?
How the Church continues to perpetuate its framework of lies.
The other day, a Christian friend posted a video on social media of some pastor attempting to “witness” on what looked to me like a college campus or maybe a street somewhere.
In the video, a young man with some obvious intelligence makes a pointed comment to the pastor that Jesus’ virgin birth is only mentioned twice in the New Testament. The young man questions why something so essential to the Christian faith and history was never even mentioned by Paul of Tarsus or other Gospel writers, namely Mark and John.
In the video, the pastor is obviously agitated and attempts to answer the young man with the most bogus of points I think I have ever heard anyone use.
Just so we know, the “virgin” birth is only ever mentioned twice in the NT, once in Mathew 1:18 and in Luke 1:27 and 34. Even then, the term that gets translated from the Koine Greek into English is:
παρθένος parthénos, par-then’-os; of unknown origin; a maiden; by implication, an unmarried daughter: — virgin. (Strong’s)
παρθένος, παρθένου, ἡ, 1. a virgin: Matthew 1:23 (from Isaiah 7:14); … (from Homer down; the Septuagint chiefly for בְּתוּלָה, … either a marriageable maiden, or a young (married) woman… (Thayer’s)
Take note that within both Greek lexicons, the term that gets translated into “virgin” simply means “maiden”, a young woman, and that it is IMPLIED that she is an unmarried daughter and a “virgin”. Thayer even notes from the Septuagint that the maiden can be married and therefore not a virgin.
We’ll get back to this Septuagint business in a moment… but first I want us to realize something about lexicons.
Because Christian translators are responsible for building these lexicons, they have taken some rather stark liberties in biasedly defining that parthénos explicitly means “virgin” when that is NOT the underlying definition at all. You have to ASSUME or IMPLY that the parthénos (maiden or young woman) is a “virgin”. Again, even though Thayer defines the term as “virgin”, he also notes that the same term is used to…
