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…
