SuperHornet wrote:Gotta be careful using the KJV around here, CAT. These youngsters might not understand it. Middle English is a foreign language to them. Heck, even MODERN English is often a foreign language to youngsters who are fluent in only ONE language: textese!

You're right. Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramic were translated into Greek, latin, German, English, etc.. all the while distorting the books. For instance, "almah" is Hebrew for a young woman of childbearing age, however that doesn't mean virgin. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops even agrees that "almah" more accurately means a young woman vice a virgin.
If the Hebrew writers had meant "virgin" then they would've written "bethulah".
Very interesting. Words mean things and when the church fathers were designing the Church and the books, words were deliberately altered, books were deliberately chosen and discarded all in hopes of giving the idea of Christianity which they wanted.
On a different topic, I understand the point of the Bible, but how come the churches can't recognize that Jesus most likely had siblings. Mary and Joseph were man and wife. They surely would've had children.