Thank You, Cyd, and Merry Late Christmas & New Year.
I have also seen it written that "virgin" in English means a woman who has not had sexual intercourse with a man, but that as the story was written, it could have just meant an unmarried woman.
At any rate, there is no requirement for St Augustine's purity-test, not having the "seed of Adam", so not being defiled by "original sin". It was just based on bad science, that the male sperm had a little homunculus seed that grew in the fertile soil of the woman's womb.
Augustine was a clever inventor, but garbage-in, garbage-out.
The Divine would certainly know when there was a situation arising which would be fit-for-purpose for such Divinity, in the same sort of way that spirits get appropriate reincarnations in other traditions.
There were plenty of young, unmarried women made pregnant in those days. The Jews had many times been a subjugated people, as they were in a moderate way under Rome, at that time. Subjugated people keep the children of their daughters as members of the family. Jews keep matrilineal family records.
The most prevalent rumor of the physical patrimony of the body of Jesus of Nazareth is that a Macedonian archer in the Roman army, named Pantera was the biological father of Jesus.
There have been so many axes to grind in the creations of this origin story, but I find the origin-stories all to seem contrived, for PR purposes, and likely in the great library at Alexandria, where the composition of what we know as the "Bible" mostly took place.
The essence of Truth is in the teachings. That is what is important, to use the teachings of Jesus to know The Divine personally, and to be guided in life by that relationship.
Thank You, Cyd, and Merry Late Christmas & New Year.
I have also seen it written that "virgin" in English means a woman who has not had sexual intercourse with a man, but that as the story was written, it could have just meant an unmarried woman.
At any rate, there is no requirement for St Augustine's purity-test, not having the "seed of Adam", so not being defiled by "original sin". It was just based on bad science, that the male sperm had a little homunculus seed that grew in the fertile soil of the woman's womb.
Augustine was a clever inventor, but garbage-in, garbage-out.
The Divine would certainly know when there was a situation arising which would be fit-for-purpose for such Divinity, in the same sort of way that spirits get appropriate reincarnations in other traditions.
There were plenty of young, unmarried women made pregnant in those days. The Jews had many times been a subjugated people, as they were in a moderate way under Rome, at that time. Subjugated people keep the children of their daughters as members of the family. Jews keep matrilineal family records.
The most prevalent rumor of the physical patrimony of the body of Jesus of Nazareth is that a Macedonian archer in the Roman army, named Pantera was the biological father of Jesus.
There have been so many axes to grind in the creations of this origin story, but I find the origin-stories all to seem contrived, for PR purposes, and likely in the great library at Alexandria, where the composition of what we know as the "Bible" mostly took place.
The essence of Truth is in the teachings. That is what is important, to use the teachings of Jesus to know The Divine personally, and to be guided in life by that relationship.
Peace, Sister.