Reply #95: No way [View All]

[jellybelly]

I may be wrong and I don't have sources for this but I once remembering reading that the writers of the New Testament were so adament about unifying jews and gentiles under Christ that they made Jesus out to be Emmanuel, the true messiah of the jews. But they wrongly translated the Hebrew story of Emmanuel into Greek. Emmanuel was born to a young woman, and the "translators" mistaken that verse to mean Emmanuel, born to a VIRGIN woman.
If that isn't true the apostles had to prove the divinity of Jesus so a tale of virgin birth did just fine.