Isaiah chapter 7

"Steve" 

Isaiah chapter 7

Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and she shall call his
name Emmanuel (G-d is with us). (Is 7:14 quot. in Mt. 1:23) The
Christians claim that Isaiah prophesied that Mary would conceive of
the Holy spirit and give birth to G-d son (HV).

The first major problem is the context of this verse, the Christians
interpret this verse to for tell something in the future.


1)The verse should not be in the future tense, it should read '
behold the young woman is with child and about to give birth to a
son.' If the verse is in the present tense it would exclude Mary from
being the young girl for she live much latter


2)The beginning of chapter seven says "In the reign of Ahaz son of
Jotham son of Uzziah" .

This sets the time period


It also says in 7:10 "The L-rd spoke further to Ahaz' ask for a sign
from the L-rd" and the sign he got is in 7:14 "Assuredly, my L-rd
will give you (Ahaz) a sign of his own accord! Look, the young
woman . . ." We see that the sign of a young woman giving birth was a
sign for Ahaz


Another indication that it must have occurred shortly after Isaiah
said it is because he used the Hebrew word ( twa) which indicates a
prophecy which is fulfilled immediately, as in (Gen 15:4)(R.J.K)


(7:15)" By the time he learns to reject the bad and choose the good,
people will be feeding curds and honey." Does G-d , omnipotent and
all knowing, need to learn anything? (I.E)


Compare verses (7:16)"Before the lad knows to reject bad and choose
good, the ground whose two kings you dread shall be abandoned." with
(8:3-4)"I was intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and
bore a son . . .For before the boy learns to call `father' and mother
the wealth of Damascus and spoils of Samaria . . . shall be carried
off before the king of Assyria" There is a direct correlation between
this two verse in the 'Before the lad knows" and the destruction of
the foreign power.


The second area in which they make a mistake that they do not
understand Hebrew,

The Hebrew word ( hmloo[h) indicates the age of a women and does not
necessarily mean virgin. It was the common practice of the time for a
man to marry a twelve year old woman. See (S.S. 6:8),(Gen 24:23),(Pr
30:19),(Ex 2:8), (Rt 2:),(Joel 1:8)


Even if it did mean a virgin shall conceive and bear a child, what is
special about that. Every woman is a virgin who sometime in the
future shall conceive and bear a child.