It' not been overlooked. It's in Matthew.
Can you tell me why there is a plethora of history books on the Civil War and none of them is identical. Think about it.
Born of a Virgin. How do atheists pretend to disprove that?
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Can you tell me why there is a plethora of history books on the Civil War and none of them is identical. Think about it.
stiggy wiggy
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You had said you could disprove it by not doing anything. Changed your mind?
I am, and no, I'm not.
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Tiburon
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But in the case of the Virgin birth we are talking about an allegedly major event? That would be like leaving out the "Battle of Fort Sumter".
Mark came first so why would he leave it out? Did he not know about it? Were virgin births a dime a dozen at that time?
Tiburon
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Not talking about Isaiah 7:14 or not wrong?
bigthinker
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how is it "confirmed"?
How do you demonstrate that an author didn't just include or refer to Isaiah in order to give credence to their story?
But it doesn't really matter. Virgin births are fiction; it doesn't matter what some unknown person claimed thousands of years ago.
bigthinker
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there's nothing to disprove. there's no demonstrable event.
Yes, and the world and history knows about it.
Ummmm, it's not left out. God had Matthew record it.
Only God knows.
I'm sure He did.
Ummmmm this is the only virgin birth of God's Son I've ever heard of.
bigthinker
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God had someone add it to Matthew after Matthew was written.
How do you disprove the fact that it isn't in the earliest copies of Matthew?
bigthinker
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It's not my burden. I didn't bring it up. You did.
bigthinker
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I forgot, you don't know how this works...
The burden of proof doesn't fall to the person b who brings it up, it falls to the person holding the position.
Your position is that it exists in the earliest Matthew texts.
However, it is a rhetorical response to the idea that atheists need to disprove the virgin birth.
LOL. You brought up first that it isn't in Matthew. I have no burden to disprove that.
Ok, and I've never said atheists need to disprove it.
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Tiburon
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So God told Mark not to bother mentioning it because Matthew was going to include it in his gospel?
Sounds real plausible.
Tiburon
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Isaiah 7:14 says "young woman" and was a prophecy for king Ahaz, not pointing to a future messiah.
Right. I know. Thanks, or maiden, aka, virgin. The NT Greek translates as "parthenos," or "virgin."
Not so. The prophecy says she will call the child, Immanuel, which means God with us, not she will call him king Ahaz. Read it.
I hope that helps
bigthinker
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Just as atheists have no burden to disprove a virgin birth.