Many religions have virgin birth stories. What other incarnations besides JC were virgin born?
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Deities/sons of deities believed to be products of virgin births:\nJesus Christ (Christian)\nLord Krishna (Hindu)\nLord Buddha (Buddhist)\nAhura Mazda (Zoroastrianism)\nQuetzalcoatl (Aztec/Mesoamerican)\nHorus-Re (also spelled Horus) (Ancient Egyptian)\n\nHope this is helpful! :-)
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i would say she was a virgin up to the moment where GOD sent her an angel that took a human form to give her the baby Jesus Christ... in all cases i am not sure if there's evidence that an intercourse took place between her and the angel.. because GOD simply tells a thing to be and it is
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That Christ was born.
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Probably the "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" one.  This argument totally overlooks the fact that God created hermaphrodites.  And anyone who believes that God creates humans, will have to agree that God created hermaphrodites, because they were born that way.  So obviously the Adam and Eve story does not cover all the people that God created.
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The Virgin Mary is considered the Queen of All Saints, in the Catholic tradition. \nShe was born in Judea and is famous for raising a son who had a major impact on history.
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Luckily for me I had no formal religious up bringing. When I was little some one did give me a book called" The greatest story ever told." I was really impressed with a wizard that could walk on water and heal people.  I was probably in my early teens before I realized that it was jesus the book was about.  But  it did not change my perception of the book or jesus for that matter.  So today I am a pagan but I was not forced into any religion.  I did go to a catholic church with my friend once I was really disturbed by the wine and wafer aspect of the rite.. I thought that was a little on the cannibalistic side.
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Immanuel, "God is with us." The simple fact is that it is quite common in the Bible for human beings to be given names that have the purpose of declaring or reflecting a particular attribute of God, e.g., Eliab, Eliada, Elzaphan, Eliakim, Elisha, Eleazar, Tavel, Gedaliah.\n\nIn Isaiah 7:14 the Hebrew states "hinei ha'almah harah veyoledet ben" "behold (hineih) the young woman (ha - the almah- young woman) is pregnant (harah) and shall give birth (ve-and yoledet-shall give birth) to a son (ben)". The Christians translate this as "behold a virgin shall give birth." They have made two mistakes (probably deliberate) in the one verse. They mistranslate "ha" as "a" instead of "the". They mistranslate "almah" as "virgin", when in fact the Hebrew word for virgin is "betulah". Aside from the fact that if you read the context of that prediction you will see clearly that it is predicting an event that was supposed to happen and be seen by king Achaz who lived 700 years before Jesus!
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I only ever had sex with one virgin.  Married her 7 years later :)
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Adam was not born from a woman. He was created by God.  Jesus was born a man thru holy spirit.
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First person to be put on the Earth Adam \nFirst person to give birth to a baby Eve\nFirst baby born Cain
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mary was a virgin because she married as a child but was still under age of consent, when she reached the age it is possible joseph was not interested as wives were seen property and not married for love.  virgin births were common in biblical times epecially among royalty as they proved a link to the divine.  today in africa the zulu tribe practise non penetrive intercouse before marrige and still end up pregnant even in western world virgin births are not unheard of usually as result of heavy peting i suspect the same thing happened to mary.
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Read the Bible.  The messiah was prophesized to be "born of a virgin."  Thus, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit.\n\nThat is not, however, the Immaculate Conception.  The immaculate conception was the process by which Mary, mother of Jesus, was conceived.  This meant that Mary was conceived without original sin.  This is important because, as we read in the Torah (1st 5 books of the Bible), we see that the Arc of the Covenant (box that held God's Law) had to be pure and perfect.  Thus the new Covenant of God with Man, Jesus, should also be housed in a pure and perfect container until birth.  That means Mary had to be perfect, free from sin...even original sin.\n\n****\n\nSomeone quoted Mary as saying "My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."  Remember that, at this point, Jesus was not born.  God, being the savior of the jews from Egypt, is the savior Mary references.  All jews know God as Master and Savior.  Read the Psalms.  God is constantly being referred to as someone's rock, their savior, and their shelter.  Mary's calling God her savior does not equate to her declaring herself sinful.  It simply declares that God saves His people, Israel.
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Mary is Ever Virgin\nExodus 13:2,12 - Jesus is sometimes referred to as the "first-born" son of Mary. But "first-born" is a common Jewish expression meaning the first child to open the womb. It has nothing to do the mother having future children.\n\nExodus 34:20 - under the Mosaic law, the "first-born" son had to be sanctified. "First-born" status does not require a "second" born.\n\nEzek. 44:2 - Ezekiel prophesies that no man shall pass through the gate by which the Lord entered the world. This is a prophecy of Mary's perpetual virginity. Mary remained a virgin before, during and after the birth of Jesus.\n\nMark 6:3 - Jesus was always referred to as "the" son of Mary, not "a" son of Mary. Also "brothers" could have theoretically been Joseph's children from a former marriage that was dissolved by death. However, it is most likely, perhaps most certainly, that Joseph was a virgin, just as were Jesus and Mary. As such, they embodied the true Holy Family, fully consecrated to God.\n\nLuke 1:31,34 - the angel tells Mary that you "will" conceive (using the future tense). Mary responds by saying, "How shall this be?" Mary's response demonstrates that she had taken a vow of lifelong virginity by having no intention to have relations with a man. If Mary did not take such a vow of lifelong virginity, her question would make no sense at all (for we can assume she knew how a child is conceived). She was a consecrated Temple virgin as was an acceptable custom of the times. \n\nLuke 2:41-51 - in searching for Jesus and finding Him in the temple, there is never any mention of other siblings. \n\nJohn 7:3-4; Mark 3:21 - we see that younger "brothers" were advising Jesus. But this would have been extremely disrespectful for devout Jews if these were Jesus' biological brothers. \n\nJohn 19:26-27 - it would have been unthinkable for Jesus to commit the care of his mother to a friend if he had brothers.\n\nJohn 19:25 - the following verses prove that James and Joseph are Jesus' cousins and not his brothers: Mary the wife of Clopas is the sister of the Virgin Mary. \n\nMatt. 27:61, 28:1 - Matthew even refers to Mary the wife of Clopas as "the other Mary."\n\nMatt. 27:56; Mark 15:47 - Mary the wife of Clopas is the mother of James and Joseph.\n\nMark 6:3 - James and Joseph are called the "brothers" of Jesus. So James and Joseph are Jesus' cousins.\n\nMatt. 10:3 - James is also called the son of "Alpheus." This does not disprove that James is the son of Clopas. The name Alpheus may be Aramaic for Clopas, or James took a Greek name like Saul (Paul), or Mary remarried a man named Alpheus.\n\n Jesus' "Brothers" (adelphoi)) = Cousins or Kinsmen\nLuke 1:36 - Elizabeth is Mary's kinswoman. Some Bibles translate kinswoman as "cousin," but this is an improper translation because in Hebrew and Aramaic, there is no word for "cousin." \n\nLuke 22:32 - Jesus tells Peter to strengthen his "brethren." In this case, we clearly see Jesus using "brethren" to refer to the other apostles, not his biological brothers.\n\nActs 1:12-15 - the gathering of Jesus' "brothers" amounts to about 120. That is a lot of "brothers." Brother means kinsmen in Hebrew.\n\nActs 7:26; 11:1; 13:15,38; 15:3,23,32; 28:17,21 - these are some of many other examples where "brethren" does not mean blood relations.\n\nRom. 9:3 - Paul uses "brethren" and "kinsmen" interchangeably. "Brothers" of Jesus does not prove Mary had other children.\n\nGen. 11:26-28 - Lot is Abraham's nephew ("anepsios") / Gen. 13:8; 14:14,16 - Lot is still called Abraham's brother (adelphos") . This proves that, although a Greek word for cousin is "anepsios," Scripture also uses "adelphos" to desc
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it's so funny. how can this be a serious question in a normal world.\n\nwhich VIRGIN was the MOTHER of.....\n\nLOL !!!
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Jesus was a human being, born of a virgin named Mary of Nazareth.\nHis personality is controversial because 3 major world relgions see him diferently.\nStrangely enough the three great nations of the world : Jews, Christians and Muslims are at variance with regard, both, to the birth as well as the death of Jesus Christ who was born among the Jews.\n\nHis Birth:-\nThe Jews declare his birth to be illegitimate and they are guilty of uttering a grievous calumny against Mary, mother of Jesus.\nThe Christians,  believe that Jesus Christ was born without the agency of an earthly father and that he was the son of God Himself.\nThe Muslims on their part, believe that Jesus, no doubt, was born without agency of an earthly father, but he was not the son of God.\n\nHis Death:-\nThe Jews believe that Jesus died on the cross because he was a false prophet.\nThe Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross in atonement of the sins of humanity, was resurrected soon thereafter, and then ascended to Heaven.\nThe orthodox Muslims believe that God saved Jesus from "death by crucifixion" and ascended bodily to heaven, and will come down to earth again to smash the cross and what it stands for and to purify the faith of the believers.\n\nThe Ahmadiyya Muslim Community declares that Jesus Christ only fell into a swoon on the Cross, but when he was taken down from it, he recovered and migrated to Kashmir, India where he died a natural death at the age of 120.\n\nJesus Son of Mary\nIslamic Beliefs\n\nIslam is a religion which requires belief in not only the Prophethood of Muhammadsaw but all the prophets of God, including Jesus (Qur'an 2:137).\n\nThe Holy book of Islam, the Quran, relates in detail the story of Jesus, including his birth, mission as a Prophet to the Israelites, and his crucifixion. Muslims believe that this story is in harmony with the Bible too. Indeed, a whole chapter in the Qur'an is named after the mother of Jesus (Chapter 19 - Maryam). \n\nBirth of Jesus\nIn Islam, Mary is described as a pious and righteous woman who symbolizes righteous believers blessed with Divine inspiration. Islam then affirms the fatherless birth of Jesus and rejects outright the opposing claim that his birth was illegitimate. \n\nWhereas, Islam recognizes the virgin birth of Jesus as a miraculous event, it does not consider it unnatural; the laws of nature are never broken. It just reflects the inability of man to fully understand the science behind various phenomena observed in nature. Numerous scientists have explained the virgin births. \n\nIn Islam, the immaculate conception of Jesus is not interpreted to mean that he was in some way a Divine Being. He was still a human being (Qur'an 19:31). \n\nDivinity of Jesus\nIslam presents Jesus as a human who believed in the absolute Unity and Indivisibility of God (Qur'an 3:52). \n\nMuslims consider the doctrine of Divinity of Jesus and Trinity as later changes to the teachings of Jesus. The New Testament itself furnishes abundant evidence to show that Jesus was only a human being whom God chose for the reformation of His people, and repeatedly contradicts the Divinity of Jesus. Jesus always referred to himself as having been sent by God (John 17:3) and his followers, too, considered him a man approved by God (Qur'an 19:37; Acts 2:22, John 3:2). \n\nHe was undoubtedly called the son of God, but this title has only been employed metaphorically and in fact is used for all the chosen ones of God (Matt 5:9, Exodus 4:22). The literal connotation of 'son of God' as a Divine Being and hence the subsequent development of Trinity Dogma was the result of Hellenistic influences on Christianity as it spread in the Gentile world. The Semitic usage of 'son of God' was misunderstood and forgotten and disputes about the exact status of Jesus erupted, as recorded in the early Church history. \n\nJesus prayed to God like all other God-fearing individuals (Luke 5:16), and engaged
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Mary & Joseph were "betrothed".  In the Jewish culture of that time a man & woman were promised to each other and then he set to make a home for them.  Once the man had a home & funds for his bride he would go and get her and there would be a wedding feast and they would be married and could consumate their marriage.  \n\nJoseph, after being visited by an angel, took Mary as his wife but did NOT consumate the marriage until after Mary's time of uncleaness after childbirth was complete.\n\nSo Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to the Messiah.  She also had at least 4 other children.  (Would anyone REALLY consider perpetual virginity a blessing?  Especially if you were Joseph?  "Yea Joseph, as a reward for you believing the angel, marrying a woman pregnant not with your child, and raising that child you can NEVER has sex with your wife or be blessed with children of your own"  Some blessing!)
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That's a very good question. If you are a Christian who believes that Jesus was devine and son to a virgin, then I would suppose you could just say God made him that way....complete with HIS chromosomes. It's all about faith.\n\nIf you aren't a Christian, then I would say to you that it is a possibility that Mary was raped by a Roman soldier or a man in the community. So that would explain his other chromosomes. \n\nThere's really no answer, my friend.