An Unusual Birth

Greg, Nancy, and James Todd todds@pa.net
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:30:07 -0500 (00880007407, 199711200030.TAA13154@emh1.pa.net) 


>At 01:08 PM 11/19/97 -0800, Helen Willis wrote:

>>I actually read this thing a long time ago I think. The only thing I really 

>>remember about it was it claimed that Mary gave birth and that even after the 

>>baby was out of her, she was still a physical virgin. ( The old rubber hymen 

>>trick....bong). The Reader Digest Who's Who in the Bible in it's article on 

>>Mary (I know not a great source, but the best I could find this quick). 

>

>TILL

>Some apocryphal works claimed that Jesus was born through a hole

>miraculously put into Mary's side so that he would not be tainted by passing

>through the normal birth canal.

>

>

>Farrell Till

>Skepticism, Inc.

>jftill@midwest.net

>

>

NANCY
Why would passing through the birth canal taint a baby? Geez, this stuff is
downright bizarre.

Nancy Todd
todds@pa.net