The Virgin Birth is a Christological Faith-Claim – Brad Jersak

"For us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven and was Incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary." Gospel claims to Mary's virgin birth (or conception) of Christ are far more than borrowed mythology, co-opted from a host of earlier hybrid-god myths. The historic Christian faith received the story as a revelation delivered via the Gospels of Luke (1:26-38) and Matthew (1:18-25). Yes, we know that the original Hebrew prophecy in Isaiah 7:14 was not about an actual virgin (and can be rendered "young woman") nor even, initially, about Mary or her Son. That said, the LXX (the Greek translation of the OT) does use the term parthenos or ...