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On Aug 4, 7:13�pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > On Aug 3, 8:57 pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >> rbwinn wrote:
> >>> On Aug 3, 4:30 pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>> On Aug 3, 8:54 am, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 07:50:37 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
> >>>>>> in alt.atheism:
> >>>>>>> On Aug 2, 7:23?pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> The word in question is "egkuos". This word can be defined as:
> >>>>>>>>>> swelling inside, i.e. pregnant -- great with child.
> >>>>>>>>>> You are using "great with child" and assuming that's what the writer of
> >>>>>>>>>> Luke meant. Not sure how you get that, actually. Most people today
> >>>>>>>>>> would use the word "pregnant", not the phrase "great with child".
> >>>>>>>>> Well, what you are saying is that you believe that Luke was so feeble
> >>>>>>>>> minded that he would have believed there was something other than a
> >>>>>>>>> child in the womb of a pregnant woman. ? Nothing he wrote would
> >>>>>>>>> indicate that he was feeble minded.
> >>>>>>>> No, I'm not saying that at all.
> >>>>>>> Well, you absolutely are. You regard me as so stupid that you think
> >>>>>>> you can convince me that a pregnant woman does not have a child in her
> >>>>>>> womb. Why would you treat Luke any different?
> >>>>>> Once again, you misrepresent the discussion.- Hide quoted text -
> >>>>>> - Show quoted text -
> >>>>> The discussion was whether a pregnant woman has a child in her womb.
> >>>>> You claimed she did not.
> >>>> There is a fetus in the womb from 9 weeks from conception to birth.
> >>>> Prior to 9 weeks, there isn't even a fetus.
> >>>> Did you parents ever teach you about the birds and the bees? (Hint: It
> >>>> has nothing to do with avians or insects.)
> >>> I was taught from the time I was born that a pregnant woman has a
> >>> child inside her.
> >> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you were taught wrong.
>
> >> --
> > You are saying that my mother was lying to me about my younger
> > brothers and sisters?
>
> No. �She was taught wrong, too, if she claimed that she had children in
> her womb.

Well, she was taught from the Bible.  The Bible says,

4  And Joseph also went up ...........
5  To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

Robert B. Winn