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Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity. I'm Jay Warner Wallace. Today we're

going to talk about something that seems rather appropriate for the end of the year,

the holidays coming, although you may not even be watching this episode during the holidays,

and if you're watching this sometime afterward, I still think this is an important issue for us

to master. And this is the issue that really surrounds whether or not we believe and we can

defend the necessity of the Virgin conception of Jesus as a reasonable event in history. Now, I know that

you might be thinking, well, look, I'm a Christian. I actually accept this as a matter of faith,

a tenet of faith. And I understand that. But there's a lot of objectors to Christianity who

point to this and will argue that this is ludicrous. This is, you know, ridiculous.

And they'll either say that this is something that's borrowed from some prior tradition, some prior mythology,

or they'll argue that this is really unnecessary and unreasonable and just another ridiculous miracle that is nonsensical, a number of ways of approaching this.

I want to start a few episodes, at least two, where we look at the birth of Jesus and kind of

examine it historically to see, you know, where does it kind of fall in the history of the traditions?

Why, for example, does some Gospels mention it and other

gospels don't? Also, I want to talk about in this episode, whether or not we think that this is

a doctrine of Christianity that's worth defending to begin with. And, you know, a lot of times we

defend other things, the resurrection, for example, you see lots of us spend time and effort

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