Another immaculate conception

[Benjamin Barrett]

On May 18, 2013, at 10:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wro=
> te:
> 
>> What I meant was that the idea that Mary was a virgin when she conceived
>> comes under the term "virgin birth."
> 
> 
> And what I tried to explain was that it doesn't, in the theology of the One
> True Faith, since "conception" and "birth" can hardly be confused. "Virgin"
> means only that Mary, in the words of the only translation of the Decameron
> that I've ever read, "had never felt the horn with which men butt."
> Therefore, she was a virgin, in that narrow, restricted sense. Yet, she
> bore a child. Hence, virgin birth. Q.E.D. I don't even see any
> pswaydo-logical connection between the Immaculate Conception in which God
> infused a soul unsullied by original sin into a female zygote at the moment
> of its/her conception and the subsequent bearing of a child that was not
> begotten on her by any man, but by the Holy Spirit.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_birth_of_Jesus: "The virgin birth of Jesus is the belief that Jesus was conceived in the womb of his mother Mary by the Holy Spirit and born while Mary remained a virgin."

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA
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