tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post110238333532721653..comments2024-03-28T02:15:29.817-05:00Comments on Mouse Words: There's more at stake than just the CreationAmanda Marcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05098500818240791320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1102389811467820202004-12-06T21:23:00.000-06:002004-12-06T21:23:00.000-06:00I would have to grab my concordance (different loc...I would have to grab my concordance (different location from current computer) to be sure, but almah, the Hebrew word for "virgin" (from second-Isaiah prophesy: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and he shall be called Emmanuel) means young woman, state of hymen not specified. NT use of parthenos to translate almah might be more specific, but clearly this was use of a quote of OT prophesy. <br /><br />Anyway, it rather misses the main point, doesn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1102387022596746622004-12-06T20:37:00.000-06:002004-12-06T20:37:00.000-06:00The way that all religions have these common eleme...The way that all religions have these common elements (virgin births, etc) might lead some to believe that there is an "intrinsic" "ur-religion" that's the one we really should be following, and all the real religions are partial views of the real one. I *think* that's the idea that inspired the founder of Baha'i about 150 years ago.<br /><br />That remind me, I read a recent article in the <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fcriterion.uchicago.edu%2F">Chicago Criterion</A> (their website's terribly out of date, but oh well), an amusing, erudite, and totally moonbattish conservative campus paper. Anyway, they recently had an article on William James and religion. One of the things that was pointed out was that discoveries in neuroscience nerve groupings that are allegedly associated with religious experiences is that atheists respond to this with "see? Religion was just a few weird neurochemical developmental features in the human brain after all!" and religious types say, "see? An evolutionarily useless part of the brain that allows us to experience religion! God really does love us, doesn't He?"<br /><br />Julian ElsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com