Would anyone agree the issue of the Virgin Birth being symbolism?

Question

I believe that those people who dwell on the literal interpretation of the Virgin Birth are missing the point.

Maria, as I know her, was a Virigin at her Soul (in her heart and in her thoughts, if you like), she was the most pure person in incarnation, when she gave birth to Christ.

With this being the case, a person who never did wrong, a person who never caused harm, a person who never spoke badly of others, does it really matter whether she conceived the natural way, by having sex, or not?

I personally believe that the emphasis on the physical denied Maria the emphasis on her as a uniquely pure person, one that gave birth, and brought up Jesus Christ.

Is there anyone who feels the same way?

Answer 1

Interesting. Yes I believe it is symbolic, but I believe it is speaking of events that occur within the soul. The Immaculate Conception is the birth of the Idea of a Perfected Human.

Answer 2

Since when does "virgin" mean "pure at heart"? The Old Testament prophesies that the sign by which we can recognize the Messiah is that a virgin will conceive and bear a son. I don't think that a woman who is pure at heart having a son is much of a sign, do you? That would be pretty easy to miss. It has happened thousands of times. On the other hand, something that is logically impossible, a virgin conceiving and bearing a son, is a sign worth noticing. Why water down the Word of God? Do you think that such a thing is impossible for the God who made the universe out of nothing?

Answer 3

Nope, sounds too much like trying to get around the truth to me. If Mary or Maria as you call her, were to have a normal birth with the sex and all, it would not be able to be called the Son of God, now would it? It would be Joseph's son, not God's son. Brings God down to the basest level and discounts that God can make a miracle even in the beginning of the life cycle. So are you saying God is not able to make a virgin a mother by His own power? To see the birth of a child when she has never been with a man, you see the fulfillment of a promise from centuries before that said Jesus would be born of a virgin that had never been with a man, that His progenitor is God in Heaven and the babe would be God's own Son. There was no other that was even ever claimed such a thing before or since and none could do it but God.

Answer 4

No,
Isaiah 7:14 ,"14Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, the young woman who is unmarried and a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us]
Matthew 1:20-23 "20But as he was thinking this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary [as] your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of (from, out of) the Holy Spirit.

21She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from [a]failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].

22All this took place that it might be fulfilled which the Lord had spoken through the prophet,

23Behold, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel--which, when translated, means, God with us.(A

Luke 1:34-35
34And Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I have no [intimacy with any man as a] husband?

35Then the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the holy (pure, sinless) Thing (Offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God.(A)

As some argued that the word virgin means young maiden, but as you see at Isiah 7:14, a young maiden becoming pregnant is not a sign but an everuday accurance. A VIRGIN conceiving a supernatural sign.

I'll take the bible litteraly, since there's nothing in the bible to say that we have to take it as a symbolic. God's word is the ultimate truth.

Answer 5

The whole concept of the virgin birth came about because of a mistranslation of the Bible from Hebrew to Greek. It was Rabbis who did the translation, and this became the Septuagint. But, what ended up the Septuagint was what remained after the church altered it.

''The Greek translation that we have is not necessarily the one done by the rabbis. Naarah is found in many places in Torah, always means a young woman (perhaps virgin perhaps not). Betulah is found in many places in Torah, always means a virgin''.

This is why the mix-up.

Answer 6

I think Mary was a virgin in every sense of the word and God not being a physical being or human form she could not conceive in the"natural way"but with a miracle from God she did. 'As the story goes it says she never"knew" a man and was a very young woman. get with the program it does not need to be re-interpreted or re written.

Answer 7

Yes; I do!
Mary concived DURING PETTING, hence she was a virgin after conciving!
The church had to find an excuse how a women not being officially married can be the mother of Jesus. So they invented that fairytale about her conciving by the Holy Spirit; who by the way is a SHE, as it was standing in the book of Enoch that disappeared 1000 years ago out the bible.
Why? To degrate women!

Answer 8

Sorry to point this out, but if you are a Christian, than you are a heretic.

Your "understanding" totally rules out any possibility that Jesus was both truly divine and truly human.

If that were the case, his life and death would have been a nice story, but nothing more, and we would all still be enslaved to Satan, sin, and death.

But perhaps you don't believe in that either.

Answer 9

when the angel came to Mary to tell her she would be carrying the Son of God, she didnt know how it would be because she was a virgin but the angel told her that the Holy Spirit would conceive her so she could still have the baby.
she's still the Mother of the World, the most loved woman of all time, and the Queen of Heaven, and thats what matters.

Answer 10

If you observe those who "symbolize" scripture they end up taking away the core of the Word. It becomes a book of men rather that God. You have given credit to a sinner (yes a godly women who is to be honored yet she was a sinner) and taken the Glory do to God away.