Growing In Godliness Blog
“The Virgin Birth”
Categories: Angels, Author: Paul Earnhart, Jesus, ProphecyThe Virgin Birth
By Paul Earnhart
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus was born of a virgin. The prophet Isaiah foretold the virgin birth 700 years before it occurred. He said: “Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, God with us." (Isa 7:14, Mt 1:23)
Luke tells us that an angel appeared to Mary and told her that she would have a child. She could not understand how that was possible since she had never had relations with a man. However, the angel assured her that "with God nothing will be impossible" (Luke 1:37).
Matthew makes it very clear that she did not have relations with Joseph, her husband, "until she brought forth her firstborn son”. (Mt. 1:25)
Some people today ridicule the idea that Jesus was born of a virgin. They insist that the virgin birth is but a myth that grew up years after Jesus lived. When Christians reject this explanation and insist on the virgin birth we are asked: "Why, what difference does it. make? The importance of Jesus is in what He did and taught, they say, not in whether He was born of a virgin.
The doctrine of the Virgin birth is most Important to Christians. If Jesus had no human father but was conceived by the Holy Spirit as the scriptures teach, then He was in a very special sense THE SON OF GOD. He was God in the flesh or, as Isaiah said it, "God with us”. As the son of God, He is divine, worthy of worship and due our unreserved submission. On the other hand, if He was not born of a virgin, then He was only human like all the rest of us. His claim that God was His father was a lie, which resulted either from Ignorance or from an intention to deceive. Either way, He is no example for us and no proper object of worship.
I believe that Jesus Christ was and is the Son of God; therefore, I believe that He was virgin born, having no human father.
