Virgin Birth questioned: the research

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The fundamentalists were right in recognizing that the integrity of the Christian Bible depended upon acceptance of the virgin birth. But, the doctrine poses a serious challenge to reasonable hermeneutic practice.

Isaiah 7:14 was ripped from its context to be appropriated as the prophetic basis for the virgin birth in a manner that violates the principle that time and again members here admonish us to avoid. "You're taking that verse out of context" we tell each other.

Well, in this case, the scriptural context shows that the prophesy is about the state of political affairs a few years later when the child has reached the age of moral reasoning. Thus, the text declares: “Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you have a horror of shall be forsaken” (Isaiah 7: 15-16). That would be expected to occur within the lifetime of Ahaz to whom the sign of the child was given.

Thus, the author of Matthew apparently violates the principle of interpreting verses according to their context which we all have acknowledged as a sound and reasonable thing to do. How do you justify that?