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| | Virgin Birth of Christ |
 | | Virgin birth is one of the criteria to determine one's belief in the deity of Christ and supernatural. | | | A virgin is "a person who has not had sexual intercourse,"1 and virgin birth is "birth from a virgin."2 Today, this term "virgin birth" has been widely used by religious leaders and scholars to narrate the stories of miraculous and supernatural birth in their religion. | | | In Hinduism, the birth of Krishna is attributed as virgin birth. |
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http://www.athmaprakashini.com/virginbirth.htm
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| | The Virgin Birth |
| | The virgin birth is not included in the New Testament primarily to prove that Jesus is the Son of God. | | | The virgin birth was not included in the New Testament to make Jesus fit the Isaiah 7:14 prophecy and to fulfill Jewish expectations of a virgin born Messiah. | | | The virgin birth is not included in the New Testament because the Bible has a negative view of sexuality within the bounds of marriage. |
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| | Virgin Birth - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Virgin Birth |
| | The virginal conception of Jesus is described in the Gospels of St Matthew and St Luke. | | | Roman Catholic dogma also asserts the perpetual virginity of Mary, teaching that she bore Jesus in a miraculous way so that she remained a virgin and subsequently had no other children; the brothers and sisters of Jesus, mentioned in the Gospels, are assumed to be Joseph's by a previous marriage. | | | Orthodox Christian belief in the virginal (or immaculate) conception of Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit at work in the Virgin Mary. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Virgin+Birth
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virgin Birth of Christ |
| | The dogma which teaches that the Blessed Mother of Jesus Christ was a virgin before, during, and after the conception and birth of her Divine Son. | | | Harnack [39] is of the opinion that the virgin birth originated from Isaias 7:14; Lobstein [40] adds the "poetic traditions surrounding the cradle of Isaac, Samson, and Samuel" as another source of the belief in the virgin birth. | | | Those who derive the virgin birth from Isaias 7:14, must maintain that an accidental misinterpretation of the Prophet by the Evangelist replaced historic truth among the early Christians in spite of the better knowledge and the testimony of the disciples and kindred of Jesus. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15448a.htm
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| | The virgin birth of Jesus: Fact or fable? |
| | Most modern liberal theologians have generally rejected the virgin birth, and classify it as a religious myth that was added to Christian belief in the late first century CE. | | | This has long been one of the church's foundational beliefs, along with the inerrancy of the Bible; the inspiration of the Bible; the atonement, resurrection, and anticipated second coming of Jesus. | | | "The Virgin Birth in Catholic Theology," New Advent, at: http://www.newadvent.org/ |
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| | FIRST PERSON: Can a Christian deny the virgin birth? - (BP) |
| | The virgin birth does not stand alone as a biblical doctrine; it is an irreducible part of the biblical revelation about the person and work of Jesus Christ. | | | The virgin birth is simply a part of this mythological structure and Bultmann urged his program of "demythologization" in order to construct a faith liberated from miracles and all vestiges of the supernatural. | | | Attacks upon the virgin birth emerged in the aftermath of the Enlightenment, with some theologians attempting to harmonize the anti-supernaturalism of the modern mind with the church's teaching about Christ. |
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http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=17343
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| | Virgin-Birth Prophecy |
| | This is the case with the virgin birth prophecy. | | | Since the perfect son of a perfect God could not have been imperfect at birth, we have one more reason for believing that Isaiah was not prophesying the coming of the future messiah. | | | Alternatively, if Matthew was merely telling his audience that Jesus' virgin birth was prefigured in the virgin-birth of the one whose name would be "Emmanuel," then Matthew's errors are not as bad. |
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http://members.aol.com/JAlw/virgin_birth_prophecy.html
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| | Virgin birth: a defense |
| | The Virgin Birth in the Theology of the Ancient Church. | | | Finally, it may be that the virgin birth was directly alluded to in the Gospel of John. | | | The virgin birth was not seen in a christological perspective when Matthew and Luke reported it; hence, there is no reason for it to appear in Paul's letters or elsewhere in the NT. |
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| | We Believe in the Virgin Birth |
| | Above all, the doctrine of the Virgin Birth asserts that Jesus' conception and birth were miraculous and unlike any other: conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Jesus had no earthly biological father. | | | Second, the main difference between Jesus' birth and most pagan virgin births is that the Church asserted ours was of a historical person from a historical mother and not a legendary figure (such as the sons of Zeus). | | | Also, Mary's role as both virgin and Mother has been compared to the Church which creates new sons and daughters through baptism and who keeps the purity of the apostolic faith as pledged to Christ, her Spouse (1). |
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| | Virgin Birth |
| | The Virgin Birth is clearly taught in the New Testament and it becomes obvious that the New Testament writers and the early Christian believers accepted the Virgin Birth as the explanation of how the Incarnation of the sinless Son of God was accomplished. | | | The Virgin Birth is inseparably related to the concept of the Incarnation of Christ. | | | Eliminating the Virgin Birth from the Incarnation leaves us at a loss to explain how the 3vine Son of God could enter the human race without the taint of sin and still be fully human and fully divine at the same time. |
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http://www.jpdawson.com/newsltrs/newsltr06.html
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| | The Virgin Birth of Christ: Prophecies in Genesis and Isaiah |
| | Evidently, he was thinking of a virgin of such singular renown and importance that she was rightly called "the virgin." No doubt he was thinking of the virgin mentioned first in Genesis 3:15, the virgin who would bear the conqueror of Satan (20). | | | The Virgin Birth of Christ: Prophecies in Genesis and Isaiah | | | The first hint in the Old Testament that the coming Christ would be born of a virgin occurs right at the beginning. |
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http://www.themoorings.org/apologetics/VirginBirth/Isaiah.html
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| | Virgin Birth Revisited |
| | Christians want to support the testimony of the Gospel writers by using Isaiah 7:14 as an evidence of the virginity of Mary - that somehow the OT demonstrates that the Christ was foretold to be born of a virgin. | | | The argument that betulah exclusively meant "virginity" is in fact faulty, and the argument that almah exclusively meant "virginity" is also faulty. | | | One common fallacy among critics of the virgin birth is that there is another more specific word known as betulah that Isaiah should have used if he was predicting the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.frontline-apologetics.com/virgin_birth_revisited.htm
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| | The Virgin Birth |
| | The doctrine of the Virgin Birth affirms, on the contrary, that he was special from the first moment of his existence as a human. | | | Accordingly, I think it unreasonable to expect someone to believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus until he has already been persuaded that Jesus is God's revelation of Himself in human terms, and that Jesus died and rose from the dead. | | | Again the reference does not specify virginity, but one assumes that it was on the servant's list of desirable qualities, especially since, when Rebecca appears, we are told most explicitly that she was in fact a virgin. |
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| | Virgin birth |
| | The virgin birth became the means to protect the sinless Son of God. | | | When Mormons teach about the Virgin Birth of Jesus, they do not mean the same thing we do as Christians and they know this. | | | According to Mormonism, God the Father, who has a body of flesh and bones (since he was a man), came to earth and had a physical sex with Mary, his own daughter and begot Jesus' physical body. |
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| | The virgin Mary's importance to the Church is signified by her being the only servant of God personally named in the Creed besides her Son Jesus. | | | Is the Church correct to claim that this prophecy foretold the Virgin Birth of the Messiah? | | | The Apostles' Creed calls on Christians to confess their belief that Jesus Christ was ``born of the holy Spirit and the virgin Mary.'' The immediate biblical sources for this doctrine are the Birth Narratives of Matt. |
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| | New Covenant Church of God: FAQ169. The Virgin Birth and Jesus' Marriage |
| | She continues to be referred to the Virgin Mary by Christians even after she had increased her family so obviously she is not "virgin" in the sense of being sexually untouched. | | | On one level, then, the virgin birth is a necessary testimony that Jesus is no ordinary man but that there is a meeting of God and man in a unique and marvelous way. | | | We believe, along with orthodox Christianity, in the Virgin Birth, but we don't believe that sex, or an absence of it, is relevent to its mystery. |
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| | A Virgin-Birth Prophecy? |
| | Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us (1:22-23, KJV). | | | Indeed, Isaiah's word for "sign" was 'ot, which in the Hebrew Bible invariably indicated an imminent sign or omen, not one in the far future. | | | The sign of Immanuel offered by the prophet to Ahaz had to do with the imminent birth of a child, of a mother known to Ahaz and Isaiah, and signified God's presence with his people.... |
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| | The So-called "Virgin Birth" |
| | Therefore, the bad news is that firstly the virgin birth is disproved by the Bible itself, and secondly, there is no written eyewitness testimony for Jesus' supposed life. | | | The author of Matthew was using the Septuagint 'LXX' - the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible compiled in the second century BC for the Greek- speaking Jews of the Diaspora - ie. | | | Christians have always argued for Jesus' virgin birth, but also argue he was descended from David. |
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| | The Virgin Birth of the Son of God - (Luke 1:26-38) - John Piper |
| | And it is, of course, possible to believe in Jesus' divine Sonship without believing in the virgin birth. | | | For Luke, or at least for Gabriel, the divine sonship is inseparable from the virgin birth. | | | According to Luke 1:1-4, the Gospel of Luke and its sequel the Acts of the Apostles were written to help Theophilus (and all subsequent readers) know the truth of the Christian teachings he had heard and thus come to have a well-grounded faith in Jesus Christ and be saved. |
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| | Is the Virgin Birth Scientifically Impossible? |
| | Of course, the Bible describes the virgin birth as a miracle that resulted from the action of the Holy Spirit. | | | In the Middle East there were "honor killings" for women who conceived out of wedlock, so to speak of a virgin birth was extremely dishonorable. | | | In fact, the Bible alludes to some disparaging remarks made by the opponents of Jesus. |
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| | A Look at Modern Natural Theology |
| | This is opposed, together with birth control by the Catholic faith, as one example. | | | At the time of the birth of Christ, the cerebrum had almost certainly fully grown. | | | The planning could mean that not only was Joseph’s wife Mary chosen, but chosen and guided by the link before her birth. |
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| | OutreachJudaism - Q&A |
| | The author of the first Gospel deliberately mistranslated the Hebrew word ha'almah as "a virgin." This Hebrew word ha'almah does not mean "a virgin." It means "the young woman," with no implication of virginity. | | | In Isaiah 7:14, he argued, the Hebrew word "la'chem" is a plural "you" and it therefore was addressing the future virgin birth of Jesus which was associated with the House of David, not Ahaz and his immediate military crisis. | | | He concluded, therefore, that whenever the prophet addressed the House of David or spoke in the plural "you," he was addressing the future virgin birth of Jesus seven centuries later. |
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| | Virgin Birth |
| | The two references to Miriam being a virgin in verse 27 and Miriam’s response in verse 34 supports the virgin birth. | | | ] birth was a later doctrinal development of the Church is likewise trendered doubtful by the fact that neither account is a doctrinal treatise. | | | Justin Martyr has therefore admirably expressed the Biblical teaching in his comment on Isaiah 7:14, ‘The words, ‘Behold the virgin shall conceive,’ signify that the conceived without intercourse; for if she had intercourse with anyone whatever, she would no longer be a virgin. |
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| | NEWSWEEK Poll: 79 Percent Believe in Virgin Birth - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com |
| | Sixty-seven percent say they believe that the entire story of Christmas—the Virgin Birth, the angelic proclamation to the shepherds, the Star of Bethlehem and the Wise Men from the East—is historically accurate. | | | Twenty-four percent of Americans believe the story of Christmas is a theological invention written to affirm faith in Jesus Christ, the poll shows. | | | 5 - Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe that, as the Bible says, Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll on beliefs about Jesus. |
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| | ZetaTalk: Virgin Birth |
| | The mother of Jesus did indeed have a Virgin Birth, and correctly ascribed this to a visit from an entity not of the Earth, an entity she called an angel. | | | As artificial insemination was an unknown science in those days, the Virgin Birth was explained as best the people knew how. | | | She was assisted in her desire to bear a child, to bear this special child, as both she and Joseph had given The Call to Service-to-Other entities strongly and repeatedly and understood full well the hardships their life might bear because of it. |
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| | Scientists Eye 'Virgin Birth' Phenomenon - CBS News |
| | Scientists Eye 'Virgin Birth' Phenomenon - CBS News | | | "It's an open question whether this will ever develop into a live birth," Prentice said. | | | It's called parthenogenesis — Greek for "virgin birth." Now a few scientists are trying to take males out of the human equation as well, not to create babies but to develop stem cells for medical research. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - 'Virgin birth' mammal rewrites rules of biology |
| | This would not normally work, a fact evidenced by decades of studies into the phenomenon of parthenogenesis, also known as virgin birth. | | | New Scientist Breaking News - 'Virgin birth' mammal rewrites rules of biology | | | Kaguya was created by combining the genetic material of two egg cells. |
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