Questions about Jesus: 2. Do you believe Jesus was born of a vrgin?
Do you believe Jesus was born of a virgin?
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus was indeed born of a virgin. Seven hundred years before the birth of Jesus, the prophet Isaiah prophesied saying, ‘Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call His name Immanuel …’ (Isaiah 7 v. 14) Matthew, the Gospel writer describing the birth of Jesus quotes this passage and adds the meaning of the word, ‘Immanuel’ saying, “which is translated, ‘God with us.’” (Matthew 1 v. 23) Luke’s Gospel also explicitly and repeatedly says that Mary was a virgin when she conceived, and tells how shocked both Mary and Joseph were upon receiving the news of Jesus’ conception because they had not had sexual relations.
Jesus was God taking on Himself humanity. He was fully God and fully human, and therefore it is natural that He should be born of the Holy Spirit and of Mary. It would be hard to understand how Jesus could be God if He was conceived of a human father and mother.
It is wrong though to think in terms of Mary as the ‘mother of God’. The Bible never uses that phrase, and it is not true. She was blessed by God, and in her song, the Magnificat, confessed that she needed a Saviour as any human being does. Later, the Bible makes it clear that she bore children in the normal way through sexual intercourse. (See Matthew 12 v. 46 – 50 and 13 v. 55 – 56)
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