The virgin birth of Jesus through Mary is a doctrine that is crucial to biblical Christianity. On this doctrine hangs original sin, the inspiration of Scripture, who Jesus was, and what Jesus did through salvation. To deny the virgin birth is to deny these other doctrines as well.

Scripture describes the event for us. In response to Mary’s question, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin” (Luke 1:34), Gabriel says “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you...” (Luke 1:35). Matthew 1:20 says "…For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit.”

Scripture teaches that Jesus was fully human, with a physical body. This He received from Mary. At the same time Jesus was fully God with an eternal, sinless nature (John 1:14; 1 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 2:14-17).

Romans 5 indicates the sin nature is passed down from generation to generation through the father. But Jesus was not born in sin, He had no sin nature (Hebrews 7:26). He was the Holy One of God since He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Because He was the Son of God, He partook of the divine nature.

Simply put, all of us were born into sin from the moment of our birth. The psalmist himself said that his mother conceived him in sin. It all started in the Garden of Eden. When Adam and Eve partook of the fruit of the forbidden tree, their sin was passed down to every man that would be born thereafter. 

Romans 5:19 tells us "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." That one man who disobeyed was Adam and because of that we are all born into sin. This makes us enemies of God because we have all transgressed God's law. 

So why is it so important that Jesus be born of a virgin? Seed comes from men and if Mary had been impregnated through any man on the earth, the child would have inherited the same sin nature as every other man.

The virgin birth circumvented the transmission of the sin nature and allowed the eternal God to become a perfect man. the Bible says that what was conceived in Mary was of the Holy Spirit, not a sinful man. This work of the Holy Spirit, bypassed the sinful human race and got a child on the earth who was not born of the corruptible seed of man. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Heavenly Father. He also never sinned, which qualified Him to be a righteous substitutionary sacrifice for sinners. Christ was fully man—therefore able to die—and fully God. 

Scripture says that His name was to be called Emmanuel, which means God with us. God wrapped Himself in the person of Jesus Christ and came to live as a real man. Because of His sinless life and substitutionary death on the cross, anyone who comes by faith in His work can be saved from their sin and reconciled to God. In effect, it reverses what Adam did to us through His sin. While we still suffer the effects of sin while we are on this earth, one day we will ultimately be saved from sin, death, sickness, and the curse of sin for eternity. 

The virgin birth is also important because it affirms the inspiration and authority of Scripture. If we deny the teaching and say it’s a myth, then we undermine the rest of the Bible. Isaiah 7:14 says, “All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).

This was prophesied some 700 years before the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. To deny the virgin birth is to deny the work of God and to deny that Jesus is the Messiah. The virgin birth is important because it shows us that salvation must be from God. It shows we have no part in undoing the sin curse. Only He can save us. Humanity couldn’t produce its own redeemer—salvation had to come from outside in order to make right what Adam set wrong so many years ago.

Do you believe in the virgin birth? It is crucial for a proper understanding of scripture and salvation from Christ. 

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