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Subject: 恕我直言…


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書生小賢
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Date Posted: 08:19:28 11/28/04 Sun
In reply to: 天力 's message, "奧修答客問:耶穌的媽媽為甚麼是童貞?" on 13:32:48 11/26/04 Fri

雖然你們這論調,立意未嘗不好,是盡力為科學與信仰「搭橋」,但…
天力所言,實在有強詞奪理之嫌。

恕在下淺陋,我從沒聽過有任何人把「童貞」解在心懷意志上。
「童貞」這詞:
按台灣教育部<國語辭典>的解釋,是「處女或處女的貞操。」;
按<國語辭典簡篇本>,較詳盡的解釋是「沒有經過性行為而保有的貞操。例:在天主教的教規裡,修女必須保有童貞。」;
手上沒有其他中文詞典,不然可以引出更多對所謂「不正確地引向性行為的解釋」的反對理據。

或說,童貞這概念總是中文,未必就跟外語一樣,那我從英文方面去尋索一下:
最新版的Oxford Paperback Dictionary:
Viginity: the state of being a virgin.
於是我求索"Virgin"一條:
Virgin: n. a person who has never had sexual intercourse; adj. having had no sexual experience. origin: Latin VIRGO

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
Virginity: the quality or state of being virgin; especially : MAIDENHOOD; the unmarried life.
Virgin: a person who has not had sexual intercourse; a female animal that has never copulated.

我相信,翻譯<聖經>和處理我們信仰的工作者,都是深研考究的學者,特別是思高聖經學會的修士神父們、道風山的學者們、聖經公會的學者們…
我相信他們既不會混淆一個這麼重要而顯淺的詞的意思,更不會故意用精僻的詞意翻譯<聖經>。

因此,不管聖母是如公教會所相信是「終身童貞」還是新教所認信的<聖經>所載的童貞懷孕,瑪利亞貞女生子,這是上主所許的恩典,是不必要用科學解釋的。

要是每樣用科學解釋,我想知道:

耶穌如何復活?

*   *   *

我絕對認同信仰應理性,應盡量科學的理念。
但凡事用我們的能力去「按低」上主的大能,是否另一種巴別塔的建法?(以前的人是膨脹自己,現在的人在縮小上主)

我佩服天力的膽識和精心思考,但處理文字,不是一樣應有科學精神,事事求證嗎?

^____^

主內共勉~

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神監察人心Liberal01:07:41 11/29/04 Mon
Re: 書生小賢, 恕我直言…XOX10:43:14 11/29/04 Mon
Re: 恕我直言…維記10:53:37 12/02/04 Thu


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