If God is responsible for the immaculate conception...?

Question

Why not just make Jesus spontaneously materialize on this earth instead? Why go through the hassle of magically impregnating a woman, when he could just as magically make Jesus spontaneously appear as a man or child?

If his birth was a miracle which nobody saw, why perform the miracle in this way instead of in a public way where everyone could witness it?

Answer 1

Dewcoons above is correct.....Virgin birth and immaculate conception are not the same thing. This is a misconception (pardon the pun) that most non-catholics have.

Immaculate conception = Mary

Virgin birth = Jesus

But be that as it may, your question concerning the birth of Jesus as being a hidden and unverifiable miracle is justified.
Perhaps the truth is that none of these events unfolded as portrayed in the Greek Scriptures and Christianity is simply one of the greatest and most successful frauds foisted upon humanity.

Answer 2

You're confusing the Virgin Birth (of Jesus) with the Immaculate Conception (of Mary). The one says that Jesus had not human father; the other says that Mary was sinless.

Having said that: Yeah, God could do accomplish the same thing anyway God wanted to. We'll never know why God chose the way God did.

Answer 3

Because Jesus was to be fully human as well as fully God. He was not just here to save us from sin, but also to be tempted as we are and provide an example of how to live. So he had to come into this world as a human does, grow up as a human does and make a living (He didn't start preaching until He was 30) just like us. So when we pray, we know that He really does understand what we're going through.

Answer 4

"Redemption rips across the surface of time in the cry of a tiny babe" - Bruce Cockburn

Two reasons...one, and the more "important" was that God required a perfect sacrifice once and for all. Goats and bulls couldn't do the job so he brought Jesus to earth. But Jesus had to be born as a human so that he could die as one human for all other humans. Blood for Blood. He was all man and all God, at once. Therefore He was the perfect sacrifice, because He was the only man without sin.
The other reason God allowed Jesus to be born as all men are born and grow up as we do is so that we would be drawn to Him without fear. He was a baby. He could be touched, he was unimposing. He was vulnerable and weak and defenseless. God took on the form of a child so that we would be drawn to His love and tenderness and gentleness. It is amazing to me that God chose to send His Son in a form we could handleand touch. I think too, it marks the sacrifice He made. If He had just shown up and went to thr cross, we would have maybe seen Him as otherworldly and the willing sacrifice would have been lost on us somehow.

Answer 5

Immaculate conception is a metaphor. Each of us at the core is pure consciousness and we arrive here fully connected to authentic being (Christ Self idea). Subsequently we are conditioned by others and develop an ego identity and subconscious belief system that controls our perception and experience. The rebirth/resurrection/second coming of the Christ Self is about psychologically transcending the learned identity and being true to our essential nature and purpose for being. Reality then synchronizes with that conscious awareness and choice.

Answer 6

The "Immaculate Conception" has nothing to do with the conception or birth of Jesus. The "Immaculate Conception" refers to a Catholic (only) belief that Mary was born without the stain of original sin (the term for that is "immaculate").

Answer 7

That story is an outright lie based upon the misunderstanding of the word Virgin. Using the Strong Hebrew Dictionary, it means an unmarried woman. In other words, she had sex with some unknown man.

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παρθένος
parthenos
par-then'-os
Of unknown origin; a maiden; by implication an unmarried daughter: - virgin.

Answer 8

Jesus had to be a man too. That's the only way he could redeem us. Man committed the sin against God; therefore, man must also atone for it. What better atoning sacrifice than the Son of God himself? Perfect love!

Answer 9

Because using the Blessed Virgin Mary (a human being) emphasized that Jesus was fully human, born through a mortal woman, and made an example of Mary as somebody who accepted God's will and brought Jesus into a world that didn't know Him -- the same as we are supposed to do today.

Answer 10

Wondering why it only happened once, was that to make Jesus special? Is that the only way they could set Jesus apart from us regular people? After 2000 years you would think that people would think that was a little ridiculous.