The New Testament is not suggesting that a virgin walks down the street and on her own strength

and our own power suddenly conceives a child and this child then is born and becomes the Messiah.

The great miracle comes from the naturalist today who tells us that the world popped into existence on its own power. That's the virgin birth of the whole universe.

Of all of the miracles in the New Testament, the miracles of Jesus walking on the water, turning water

into wine, feeding 5,000 people, raising people from the dead and so on.

There's one miracle story that seems to have been singled out for particular controversy

and that being his virgin birth.

I mean there have been furious debates particularly in our day over the credibility

of the New Testament documents at the very beginning of Jesus' life because the New

Testament presumes to teach that Jesus was born of a virgin.

Now some have tried to argue that the text doesn't really teach it but that seems to be an act of despair to support it.

But others just say, well, this is part of the mythical surroundings of the New Testament

documents that no scientific, educated, sophisticated person in the 20th century could ever believe.

Because if there's anything that we know through our research and our understanding of the biological

process, the system of reproduction, it's this, that virgins don't have babies.

That it takes two people, male and a female.

It takes the egg to be fertilized by the sperm in order for a baby to be conceived.

In vitro or ex-vitro doesn't matter, it still takes both sides.

A virgin in and of herself cannot conceive and have a baby.

That is an inflexible, unbreakable natural law.

And so anyone who would argue to the contrary must be involved in fantasy, legend, or myth.

But dear friends, let me say in the first instance that the New Testament is not suggesting that Jesus is born de nova like

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