I mean, come on now!!! You dont really believe this do you?
2006-11-02 06:50:21 · 36 answers · asked by J. P 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and PLEASE dont say that it happens today. Todays methods are highly technical and still involve a mans sperm. IF you claim this then you are claiming that god had a big ol' vile of some guys sperm and a injected it into Mary. Come on now.
2006-11-02 07:06:34 · update #1
No.
This 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!
Jesus 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.
LMAO 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.
2006-11-02 07:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by February Rain 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I do---just as I believe that a child is created by two cells coming together to make a new life or that an invisible force called gravity keeps me on the earth or that an invisible thing called electricity runs the computer I am using.----All amazing things, are they not? Women today get pregnant by artificial means. Is that hard to believe?
Life itself is a miracle, and only an intelligent designer could have given it to us. If you come to know what the Bible really teaches, it gives you the faith needed to believe in what we humans cannot always understand, but can still appreciate.
2006-11-02 07:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by Micah 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dear J.P.,
In order for us to perceive an object by sight, photoreceptors in the retina must be stimulated and send electrical impulses along the nerve highway(s) to our brain at a speed of approximately 200,000,000th of a second. This did not occur through "evolutionary processes" because any error would result in blindness. The earth is at a precise position in relation to our sun so that we do not freeze or fry--1 degree variation would result in the termination of man. If you also examine other stars in our universe, you will note that a great number of them do not behave as our sun does.... They produce enormous bursts of radiation that fries everything in its circumference or have such a high gravitational field that it pulls all matter into its core. Our sun is constant and continues to produce radiation that sustains life on earth. God put all of this into operation! No "big bang" produced the order we see in our universe.
So why is it so hard for you to understand that God became a man in the womb of a virgin? God even said that it would happen approximately 700 years the actual event. "For with God, nothing shall be impossible."
2006-11-02 07:13:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
In fact, what makes this even more astounding is that her child was a male offspring!
People could say that some how she mutated to reproduce spontaneously, but then genetically the child would be female.
Yet, Jesus was a male child!
Miraculous.
2006-11-02 06:54:36 · answer #4 · answered by Lives7 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you think the whole community of say new york will agree on one lie and they will believe it?
When she brought him to the people at that time the had the same thing what you are thinking about, but the NEWBORN baby has defended him self and told them about his story. this is why they believed her.
And a product of Adultery can't be Prophet!!!!
2006-11-02 07:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by zajil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do! Right now a virgin can get pregnant through in vitro fertilization. If puny man can accomplish it, how much easier for an Omnipotent God!!!
2006-11-02 06:59:02 · answer #6 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, for God, nothing is impossible. Nothing.
If you really want to understand the theology you can look it up on the web. Try http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15448a.htm
This explains the doctrine and its history. Christians have believed this since 649 (AD of course).
2006-11-02 06:57:52 · answer #7 · answered by ganzdaoben 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isn't a matter of belief. I know she did, because God said so. Not only is the fact reported in the New Testament, it was also prophecied in the Old Testament, as the sign by which we could recognize the Messiah.
2006-11-02 06:57:18 · answer #8 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Umm, I guess you never heard of in vitro fertilization, have you?
There are clinics you can go into now and choose the sperm of the type of kid you want and have that sperm injected into an egg they get from you ... then they put the egg back in you and voila! You're pregnant and never had sex.
2006-11-02 06:53:56 · answer #9 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I personally do not. I find that utterly unbelievable. But many incredible things are believed in the name of religion. I respect the right of my neighbors of faith to believe whatever they like. Just don't try to teach it in schools as fact.
arewethereyet: Are you suggesting that a woman living two thousand years ago in a remote region of Judea became pregnant by in vitro fertilization?
2006-11-02 06:51:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋