Jesus Christ
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13. Don’t you think that the virgin birth of Jesus Christ is a myth
invented by some of His disciples to honour their master, a kind of myth that
was typical of the old Hellenistic world? |
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No, we
don’t think so at all, for we believe that the story of the conception of
Jesus by the Holy Spirit in the womb of his mother Mary (thus Jesus was not
conceived by Joseph, the husband of Mary) is a true story, a story whose
details are all true, not even one detail of this story was invented. We say
this because we have accepted the words of Matthew, of Luke and of the
prophet Isaiah as the Word of God and not as the word of men. Furthermore,
there are very good reasons to believe the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. |
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First of
all, Jesus Christ had to be born of a virgin in order not to be born in sin, so
that He might bear all our sins. Because, since Jesus Christ was the Lamb of
God foreordained by God before the foundation of the world to make atonement
for our sins, He could not be conceived in sin, for He had to be pure.
Therefore His virgin birth is part of that glorious plan prepared down to the
last detail by the living God, which was fulfilled by God in the fullness of
the time for the salvation of men from their sins. And then our God is the
Almighty, so with Him such a thing was not impossible. There is nothing too
hard for our God; in six days He created the heavens, the earth and the
things which are in them; He divided a sea and had a nation walk through it,
and He caused a dumb donkey to speak with man’s voice to rebuke a prophet, -
just to mention some of His powerful works recorded in the Bible. |
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So we
believe that God caused Mary (who at that time was the fiancée of Joseph) to
become pregnant by the Holy Spirit, and afterward He caused her to give birth
to a son who was called Jesus. |
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To God be
the glory now and forever. Amen. |