Do you believe in the virgin birth?

Question

Or do you believe it is a holdover or adaptation of pagan beliefs from Eygptian culture, ala Isis and Horace?

Answer 1

The virgin birth more or less comes from a mistranlation of a Hebrew word that can also mean "young maiden." The holy books used back in the first century were Greek translations.

Answer 2

I believe in the virgin birth of Yahshua.

No I don't believe it was a holdover. I do believe that Satan is a great counterfeiter.

Original story from which the pagans get their story and all those storys are similar, it wasn't a virgin who had a miraculous birth it was a queen who got pregnant after her husband who she claimed was the sun god impregnated her through the rays of the sun. Really quite dissimilar when you think about it. Then of course she claimed to be the queen of heaven. She later on married her son claiming he was the sun god reborn (not the first advent) who died after a hunting accident (killed by a boar).

Actually a very dissimilar story.

Answer 3

I believe in the Vigin Birth

I do not believe Christianity is in any way shape or form a "Copy Cat Religion"


In spite of having been pronounced dead even by intelligent skeptics, the thesis that Judaism and Christianity consist merely of stolen pagan myths and ideas continues to be promulgated by the uncritical and accepted by the gullible. Acharya S and her Christ Conspiracy are simply the latest recycling of the general thesis, but now, even Robert Price has promulgated aspects of it in his Deconstructing Jesus.

This series of articles will serve as detail-supplements to Glenn Miller's general essay refuting the pagan-copycat thesis. We will make specific studies of religions or ideas that the critics claim are the source for some Jewish or Christian belief or concept.

Some notes on alleged parallels between Christianity and pagan religions -- an introductory commentary by a classical scholar
Pharaoh Game: Did Akhenaten Influence Jewish Monotheism?
Accept No Imitations: Did the Stories of Apollonius of Tyana Influence the Gospels?
Mighty Mithraic Madness: Did the Mithraic Mysteries Influence Christianity?
Dealing Down Dionysus: Did the Greek God of Wine Influence Christianity?
Phrygian Phreakazoid Phare: Did the Legends of Cybele and Attis Influence Christianity?
Zamloxis Shazam: Is the Story of Zalmoxis a Parallel for Christianity?
Is the Christian fish symbol derived from pagan symbols?
Is Easter a pagan holiday? -- see here for the same question regarding Christmas
What's the Buzz on Tammuz?: Did the Ancient Sumerian Shepherd-god Influence Christianity?
Close But No Cigar: Did Zoroastrianism Influence Christianity?
Was the creation account "stolen" from the Babylonian creation account?
Give It Some Muscle: On Alcides of Thebes
Is That the Chattanooga Chu Chu? On Chu Chulainn
No Beddru, One Bath: On Beddru of Japan
Do the Dazhdbog: On a Russian Copycat Savior
Hesus Freaks: On Hesus of the Druids
Another Copycat Con Job: On Alexander of Abonuteichos
Fire and Ice: On Prometheus and Pratfalls
Crites! Another Fabrication? On Crite of Chaldea
Walk Like an Egyptian: Comparing Jesus, Osiris, and Horus
Have No Fear -- Sargon is Here!
Exodus Redux: Did the Story of Sinuhe Influence the Exodus Story?
On Krishna and this also
Balder Burgers with Freys
East Indian Giver: Salivahana as Copycat Christ
Baal of Hay
Don't Mourn for Adonis
Zoar Losers
Serapis Shazam
Querying Quetzalcoatl
Lining Up Against the Lotus -- on Buddha
I Tawt I Taw a Deva Tat! -- on "Deva Tat"
Raglan Reduced by "Justin Martyr"
On Napoleon as Myth translated by "Justin Martyr"
The More Things Change -- a humourous look at how we're just having to reiterate things over the centuries

Answer 4

Back in those days, especially in the Roman Empire, if a great leader, or even a wannabe, didn't have an unusual birth to signal the approval of the Heavens, he wasn't going to be taken seriously.

Caesar, Alexander, Plato, etc. all had unusual births ascribed to them by their followers, even virgin births and ascensions to the Heavens at death.

It was a common theme in those days.

You'd think no one ever just had sex, and that they needed air traffic controllers for all the dead people flying up into the skies.

Answer 5

I believe the plain, unambiguous testimony of Scripture:

"In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you."
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God."
"I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be to me as you have said." Then the angel left her."
Luke 1:26-38

Answer 6

I believe in the virgin birth.

God may have chosen that way as to demonstrate His power.
Isis and Horace was just a story, but God said I will do it, and I am giving you a warning so you will know my power.

Answer 7

Yes.

Why is it so hard to believe that God (the creator of all life) can create a life in the womb of a woman?

It was important for the child to not have a sin nature - but to be like the "first" Adam or man.

Answer 8

yes. I believe it with all my heart. Anything is possible with God!
Here are some real quotes from the Bible. I just copied them from the Bible right now. You can look them up if you want.(But you might look in a different version, so some words may be a little different. This is a kids version since it was the Bible closest to me.)

Answer 9

Virgin birth. The "similarities" between the Gospel accounts and "unusual births" in other traditions are flimsy at best.

Answer 10

Yes, I believe in the virgin birth. The blood of Christ came from God the Father who gives life to all.