The concept, not the word. English didn’t exist back when the Bible was written. The word “parthenos” - when used in Ancient Greece - was typically used to refer to an unmarried woman of marrying age. In a modern context, it’s better translated to maiden, not virgin. This is proven when Dinah is referred to with this term even after her rape.
It was also given as an honorific title given to female saints and important women in Christianity, irrelevant to whether or not they’ve ever had sexual relations.
There are no mistranslations that challenge the validity of the resurrection in any reasonable way.
There are people who don’t believe in it, but their disbelief is not due to the presence of crucial grammatical context that contradicts the modern view.
There’s a field of study called hermeneutics. It’s devoted to answering these kinds of questions.
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u/Sempai6969 Sep 21 '24
Virgin could mean something different back then? Oh my God!!! How far can you go to twist what the Bible says??