What is the scientific term for "Virgin Birth"?
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The word you are looking for is 'parthenogenesis', which is defined as the development of an egg into an embryo without the participation of a sperm.\n\nIn fact, many invertebrates, and even some vertebrates do this.
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After giving her consent, the Blessed Virgin Mary was miraculously made pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit as described in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/luke/luke1.htm\n\nWith love in Christ.
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I ran out of answers last night just as I was about to post this; I thought you might find this link helpful:\nhttp://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,1,1,95/BABY.html
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Yes, actually it's called your Second Virginity. We learned about it in school actually. I went to a Catholic School in case you're wondering. If you're abstinent and haven't had sex in a long time and plan on waiting for the right one before resuming relations with somebody, then yes, it's valid to say you're a "born again virgin" if that's the term you like.
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No. \n\nThis was added in to compete with other religions. The area was a hotbed of cults at the time. Many of them claimed their deities were born of virgins. It was the 'in' thing to show the purity of your deity. Skip that whole 'who's your daddy?' question. No sex? Had to be a god!\n\nJesus was born of a virgin. Some claim Buddha was virgin born. Heimdall, on the other hand, was born of nine virgins...which creates more questions than it answers.\n\nLMAO at teeney111's answer. The girl is not even reading own bible which has numerous incidents of sex without marriage. No taboo has ever been strong enough to stop illegitimate births happening.
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The concept of a virgin birth isn't new, Dionysus, the Greek God was said to have been born of a virgin.  So was Mithras, according to many legends.  In fact, being born of a virgin was such a popular theme in the stories of various Gods, that early Christians pretty much HAD TO sell Jesus as being born of a virgin so he could compete.\n\nIn reality, I doubt it, but only Mary and Joseph would have known for sure...
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Yes.  The dictionary describes virgin as pure.  Thus the word is not strictly sexual.  There is also 'virgin oil'\nHope this has helped, and not further confused you.
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As one opens a New Testament, he or she cannot get past the first page without confronting the doctrine of the virgin birth. The writer Matthew says: "When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 1:18). Joseph, perplexed over the fact that his wife-to-be was pregnant, was given this explanation by an angel in a dream: "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 1:20).\n\nAnother Gospel writer tells of Mary's pregnancy from her perspective. He tells how the angel Gabriel appeared to her to help prepare this young girl for the great event which would occur in her life. He told her, "And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus" (Luke 1:31). Startled at such a thing, for she was a virgin, the angel continued: "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God " (Luke 1:35).\n\nAll four of the Gospels assume the doctrine of the virgin birth; two of them give de- tails about it. And it is all the more amazing that one of these writers (i.e., Luke) is a physician whose training and experience would incline him to deny the possibility of such a birth. Careful historian that we know Luke to have been, he investigated thoroughly and affirmed without hesitation that Jesus of Nazareth was born of a virgin.\n\nSome seven hundred or more years before the birth of Jesus, the Holy Spirit had moved the prophet Isaiah to foretell the miraculous birth of the Messiah. "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). Skeptics have tried to eliminate the phenomenon of predictive prophecy from the Bible, but this and many other divinely revealed predictions - all of which came to pass - make their efforts futile.\n\nIsaiah predicted the virgin birth, New Testament writers recorded its occurrence, and it stands as a sign from God as to the identity of Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of God and Savior of the world.
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nope not a virgin, Not being a virgin is classified as penatration process. If it goes "in" your not a virgin anymore.
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Sometimes there is blood. Yes. It's a vagina not a virgina though! Unless you are talking about Virgina's vagina.
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NOPE... Virgin is such a relative term, but basically any sort of sexual penetration makes you no longer a virgin. Sorry sweets!
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A silent birth involves delivering a baby in a completely silent, calm environment, without drugs. This is believed to prevent the formation of "engrams," or harmful psychological impressions, in a newborn infant. \n\nAccording to Church founder L Ron Hubbard, engrams are impressions formed in the brain by traumatic experiences which negatively affect a person's psyche until expunged through auditing. Silent birth is supposed to prevent engrams from being formed during a critical period. \n\nDuring a silent birth, all sounds are kept at an absolute minimum- speaking, whispering, and even music are discouraged, and anesthetic drugs are avoided. This silence is maintained for a period of seven days. \n\nA great number of silent births are attended by midwives who are often Scientologists themselves, and accustomed to the process.\n\nPersonnaly this cult is wierd and coo-coo!
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Deities/sons of deities believed to be products of virgin births:\nJesus Christ (Christian)\nLord Krishna (Hindu)\nLord Buddha (Buddhist)\nAhura Mazda (Zoroastrianism)\nQuetzalcoatl (Aztec/Mesoamerican)\nHorus-Re (also spelled Horus) (Ancient Egyptian)\n\nHope this is helpful!  :-)\n----\nIn regards to rian30's post,\n'One tradition states that Krishna was her (Devaki's) eighth child. Another states that it was a virgin birth: "In the context of myth and religion, the virgin birth is applied to any miraculous conception and birth. In this sense, whether the mother is technically a virgin is of secondary importance to the fact that she conceives and gives birth by some means other than the ordinary....the divine Vishnu himself descended into the womb of Devaki and was born as her son Krishna."'\nFrom:\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jckr1.htm\nSo I supoose there are two versions of Krishna's birth.
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from implantation on the uterine wall until birth.
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THE DOCTRINE\nIn the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin."\n\nThe subject of this immunity from original sin is the person of Mary at the moment of the creation of her soul and its infusion into her body. ". . .in the first instance of her conception . . ." The term conception does not mean the active or generative conception by her parents. Her body was formed in the womb of the mother, and the father had the usual share in its formation. The question does not concern the immaculateness of the generative activity of her parents. Neither does it concern the passive conception absolutely and simply (conceptio seminis carnis, inchoata), which, according to the order of nature, precedes the infusion of the rational soul. The person is truly conceived when the soul is created and infused into the body. Mary was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin at the first moment of her animation, and sanctifying grace was given to her before sin could have taken effect in her soul.
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Immaculate Conception, I believe, has nothing to do with the Virgin Birth but that Mary was given grace through the merits of Jesus (which would later take place) so that she was actually born without certain consequences of original sin (The disobedience of Adam and Eve) like the rest of us.  In other words, Roman Catholics believe that Mary was born sinless like Jesus, the only other Person born that way. 1\n\nAs far as Immacualte Conception being only a Roman Catholic Dogma; I believe so.  Protestants and other Christian persuasions believe Mary was a sinner like the rest of us.  Mary's Magnificat reads, '...my spirit rejoices in God my Savior". 2  Some take that to mean that Mary had a sinful human nature and needed God to save her from sin also.  Hope that helps. Good luck in your research.
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Life(Birth)\nGrowth\nSeek Nourishment\nProtect themselves from Danger\nReproduction\nDeath\n\nalternate: Excrete waste material