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Virgin Birth Prophecy?


Did the prophet Isaiah predict that Christ would be born of a virgin as described in the opening chapters of Matthew's gospel?


      The gospel of Matthew opens with a falsified genealogy. After being this nimble, the Matthew account then proceeds to twist and pervert a mistranslated verse from Isaiah found in the Greek Septuagint. By twist and pervert I mean that the verse is obviously taken out of context and then employed as ‘a prophecy of Christ' and, in particular, for reasons peculiar to one segment of the Matthew community and their ideological outlook, as a prophecy of the virgin birth of Christ. They then prove to be equally nimble in proceeding to make up a story no person on the face of the earth has ever heard of, Herod's massacre of babies, to explain why Christ's good Jewish family were forced to live up North in Gentile dog country, and then they prove to be equally nimble in making up a false prophecy no one else ever heard of (‘he shall be called a Nazarene') to help justify the story. They are forced to be nimble with this ‘virgin birth prophecy', and twist the meaning of this particular passage in Isaiah and employ it is ‘a prophecy of the virgin birth' simply because they are really, really hard up for prophecies of Christ that they can use to support their ideological position in this matter, thus forcing them to go looking for a passage, any passage they can find to defend their doctrine. First the Matthew gospel tells us that Joseph found out that Mary was pregnant before they got married, but an angel came and told him that it was alright, because she got pregnant from the Holy Ghost. Furthermore, Joseph did not have sexual relations with Mary until after the time that the child was born, thus, the gospel makes clear, this was a virgin birth for sure.

"All this took place to fulfill what YAHWEH had spoken by the prophet: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his Emmanuel" (which means, God with us). When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of YAHWEH commanded him; he took his wife, but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Joshua." (Matthew chapter 1 verse 22)

      The word ‘virgin' in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew scriptures is a mistranslation. The Hebrew word ‘almah' (translated ‘virgin' in the passage in Isaiah in the Septuagint) is a generic term that refers to a girl or any young woman, married or unmarried, virgin or not. The Hebrew language has a specific term used to refer to a virgin, and that word is ‘betulah,' employed in many other passages, and correctly translated as ‘virgin' (this example of ‘almah' becoming ‘virgin' being that one example of when a word must be incorrectly translated for doctrinal reasons, simply because the nimble Matthew gospel used the mistranslated version as ‘a prophecy of Christ.')

      This is only the first problem with Matthew's virgin birth prophecy. The passage is not only mistranslated, it is also ripped out of context. You see that passage has nothing to do with the future messiah, and certainly nothing to do with a virgin birth, but as I noted above, someone is being particularly nimble, especially when they are hard up for a line of prophecy, and the fact that no such prophecy is found in Isaiah does not stop such a nimble verse quoter.

      When you actually put that (mistranslated) stripped out single verse back into context in Isaiah, what it actually means is as follows. Around 742 B.C.E. the King of Judea, King Ahaz, was under threat of attack by an alliance of Rezim, the King of Aram, and Pekah, the King of Israel. Although their planned attack against Jerusalem did not at first succeed, Ahaz was fearful of their future plots against his kingdom. The prophet Isaiah then attempted to calm the king, and he proved to be an astute analyzer of the current political situation. He prophesied to the King that a young woman would have a child, and before the child was old enough to tell right from wrong, both Pekah and Rezim would get their comeuppance at the hand of the Assyrians. The young woman would call the child ‘Immanuel' which means, ‘YAHWEH is with us,' and as the King saw those two Kings being destroyed by the rising power of Assyria, he would know that God was with them. (Note that the Matthew gospel twists this part in using this line of prophecy, to read ‘they shall call his name Immanuel' since it was obvious that Mary called his name ‘Joshua', not Immanuel, and someone was going to have call his name ‘Immanuel', so ‘they' did, in Matthew's nimble style of using prophecy.) As the prophecy was in the process of being fulfilled, Isaiah named his next child Maher-shalal-hashbaz., which means, ‘the spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth.' In other words, these prophecies would be hurriedly fulfilled and not delayed (for centuries, as in the Matthew gospel's forced interpretation). The prophecy was for Isaiah's time, and was directed at the King of Judah (as Isaiah told him, that was a sign for the King of Judah at that time). The prophecy was also poetic, and not strictly literal, as the child ‘Immanuel' was 10 years old when the kingdom ruled at that time by Rezim fell to the Assyrians, and 21 years old when Israel fell. So we actually have two children given prophetic names in this prophecy, both Immanuel and Maher-shalal-hashbaz and both children were given prophetic names significant to the times they lived in, as the unfolding nature of the prophecy is described in Isaiah in the verses that follow. (The Matthew author had no use for Maher-shalal-hashbaz, and so that child goes unmentioned. But then they had no use for the whole rest of that prophecy, no use for that second concluding reference to that child ‘Immanuel' at the end of the prophecy, the entirety of the prophecy not being much of a ‘prophecy of Christ' after all. They just needed that one line.)

"And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it; but could not prevail against it ... Then said YAHWEH unto Isaiah: ‘Go forth now to meet Ahaz ... and say unto him: Keep calm, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah ... ‘Ask thee a sign of YAHWEH thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.' But Ahaz said: ‘I will not ask, neither will I try YAHWEH.' And he said: ‘Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also? Therefore YAHWEH Himself shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel ... Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken ... And it shall come to pass in that day, that YAHWEH shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria ... And YAHWEH said unto me: ‘Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth ... And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said YAHWEH unto me: ‘Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.' ... Now therefore, behold, YAHWEH bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, mighty and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks ... And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." (Isaiah chapter 7 verse 1)

      On consideration of this matter it should be obvious to anyone who is not fond of dogmas, and has a truly open mind, that the single verse taken out of context and twisted and perverted to become a 'prophecy of Christ' was no prophecy of Christ, but rather something else was going on here. Follow the links to the following pages to find out exactly what it was...


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Principles of Evolution: A Study in the Evolution of Bedbugs


A couple of years ago my bedroom was invaded by bedbugs. There were two variant genetic lines. One type of bedbug was an enlongated, thin, tubular insect, and the second genetic line was a flat, perfectly circular insect. The result of the cross breeding of these two genetically distinct variants was the production of a bedbug with charcteristics of both, an enlongated, flat bedbug with a central bulge (such that the shape of the bedbug was somewhere between 'long' and 'circular'). The long skinny bedbugs were such strange and unfamiliar looking insects that at first I did not recognize them as being bedbugs, and considered them to be a seperate species of insect. However, as the photographs of bedbugs above indicate, enlongated and skinny bedbugs are not uncommon, and the photographs also show the variants that are produced by genetic combinations that result in an insect somewhere in between 'circular' and 'enlongated'.

Therefore it is my hypothesis that evolution occurs by means of the transfer of dominate genes, with the production of such dominant genes being the product of 'biological algorithms', a genetic software program that brings physical characteristics into harmony with behavior, such that when behavior changes, and a conflict then exists, this acts as a trigger and causes the release of dominant genes. The result is rapid evolution of species. The bedbug is a relatively new insect, not the product of millions of years of evolution but rather an insect that is evolving in real time. The newly emerging dominant form of the insect is the flat, round ciruclar insect, well adapted to living in human bedrooms (it is flat, rather than tubular, thus allowing it to hide in the smallest cracks, living a stealthy lifestyle, and it is round, which gives the insect a maximum storage capacity such that it must endanger itself only a few times a month by emerging to feed.

Other examples of rapid evolution include the development of long legs in an invasive species of toad in Australia. As the toads move into the mountainous regions of Australia, and their behvaior changes, making them 'climbing toads', over the course of just a couple of decades the toads in the highlands have grown long legs specially adapted to climbing. It is worth noting here that the toads are poisonous, and are a successful invasive species because they have no natural predators in Australia, and so it would not be the case that the toads with long legs were 'the fittest survivors', because all the toads are survivors, and therefore predation does not explain the rapid emergence and spread of such well adapted, long legged toads. Once again we see evidence for the existence of biological algorithms and the rapid spread of dominant genes through a population, which once introduced proceed to overwhelm the older genes which are being replaced (making toad long legged and a bed bug round and flat).


A Theological Experiment

My interest in pursuing the Unified Field Theory is spurred on by my need to discover the theoretical explanation of a new form of propulsion (as explained on this page: Why the Unified Field Theory?). The experiment involving the bedbugs came out of nowhere.

I also believe that it is possible to justify theological propositions using experimental methods. If a thing is an objective truth then it can be verified and proven true by means of experimentation. Such a theological proposition is of more value than a ‘divine revelation’, since such revelations depend upon nothing more than establishing authority figures which requires the creation of artificial hierarchies, for the only reason why I might be encouraged to believe an authority figure who orders me to believe unsubstantiated opinions is if I could somehow be convinced that this authority possessed a mind that was somehow superior to mine, and thus was fit to express opinions as though opinions were unquestionable facts and thus worthy of being elevated to the status of absolute dogma.

There is a self evident human inequality which is visibly apparent. Some people are ‘beautiful’ and thus are the true elite on this planet, and some people are not. It is this sexual inequality and the degeneration that follows upon beauty that is the true driving force behind all the evil that happens on earth. The need for ruthless oppression and the pursuit of wealth and the consequent creation of suffering and poverty which must follow upon this practice is for the purpose of creating an artificial alpha elite.

The true elites are the young and the beautiful. The artificial elite are the rich and the wealthy. The elite aging rich artificial alpha male has no good looks, for he is physically degenerate, but he will be found escorting beauty because he has a beautiful wallet. If he loses his wallet he will be found at home with all the other unattractive aged beta males sitting in a rocking chair watching reruns of Bonanza. No money, no sex. It is for this reason that the alpha males are found to be so ruthless and so violent in pursuit of their goal. The alpha male has fallen. The beta male has arisen and now the whole planet is full of ruinous destruction for it.

We see in religion a confused and contradictory reaction to this reality. On the one hand religion preaches a sexless heaven where castration and the clitorectomy create ‘pure spirits’. Muslims throw women under sacks. On the other hand religion supports hierarchy and is the prop of the elite alpha male. It is for this reason that religion is incoherent when it comes to speaking about sex.

Now we see this same principle at work in all of nature. Guppies dance and show off their colorful tails and the guppy who dances with the most colorful tail is the sexually successful guppy. Therefore it is the doctrine of the ruthless oppressor which teaches that the solution to human sexual violence is to be found in castration and the creation of pure ghosts. This would be equivalent to damning an aardvark for having the ‘sinful aardvark nature’ or prosecuting an anteater for the high crime of ‘ant genocide’.

Therefore it was my theological hypothesis that the correct solution to this problem is to give every guppy a beautiful colorful tail. I compare this solution to the classic religious solution which is to cut off every tail since having a tail is ‘sinful’. If having a tail is sinful then God must be sinful for no human being has any choice in deciding whether or not they would be born with a colorful tail, or whether they would not.

When I was young I was a beautiful guppy with a lovely tail. So everyone seemed to think. I am older now. My nose became very badly sunburned and destroyed. It seemed good to me to test my hypothesis by using these ‘biological algorithms’ to correct this problem. I healed half my nose as you can see by the line separating the still very dark patch on the side in the photograph below.





I documented my experiment on these pages. one two t hree four fi ve six


I have confirmed to my own satisfaction that my theological proposition is correct and that religious dogma is erroneous, being based as it was upon nothing more than ‘divine revelation’ which is just a form of opinionated speculation. For the time being I am not continuing this experiment, for I must wait until the weather on this planet improves, and the dark clouds of ruthless oppression break letting a little sun shine come through so that I can show the world the truth about God, by showing people how God goes about giving an old guppy back his beautiful colorful tail.


Until then I will have to sit on the sidelines, while all my scientific breakthroughs are deliberately ignored, while I wonder to myself what ever in the world could be wrong with the human race, because what this all will prove at the end of it all is that there definitely was something wrong with the people on this planet.