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At Morris Fork Baptist Church, we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ (the second Person of the Triune Godhead) was supernaturally and miraculously conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary (a young, unmarried woman who had never had intimate physical relations with a man) by the Holy Spirit without the help of a human father (Joseph being His legal or adoptive father, but not His biological or procreative father) (Gen. 3:15; Isa. 7:14; 53:2; Jer. 31:22; Mat. 1:18-25; Lk. 1:26-38; 2:1-20; 3:23; Gal. 4:4; Rev. 12:1-2). God became incarnate through the vehicle of the virgin birth.

Religious liberals do not believe in the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some liberals scoff at the idea of a virgin birth and dogmatically declare that a virgin birth is a biological impossibility. They leave God out of this equation and overlook the angel Gabriel’s words to Mary: “For with God nothing shall be impossible” (Lk. 1:37). Other liberals simply do not recognize the vital importance of the virgin birth and lightly dismiss it as an inconsequential matter. They state: “It matters not whether Jesus was born of a virgin; what matters is that God was His Father.” Upon closer inspection, however, the virgin birth is seen not as an inconsequential matter, but as an indispensable matter of eternal life and death.

If Jesus was not actually born of a virgin, then the Bible cannot be trusted or believed. If Jesus was not born of a virgin, then Mary lied when she told the angel Gabriel that she had not known a man (Lk. 1:34). If Jesus was not born of a virgin, then He was necessarily begotten of both a human father and mother guilty of the sin of fornication. As the natural bastard child of sinful parents, He could not have been God Incarnate and could have no power to take away our sins. If Jesus was not born of a virgin, then we are all hell-bound sinners with absolutely no hope of salvation. If Jesus was not born of a virgin, then He was not the Creator of heaven and earth, but a mere sinful creature like all the rest of Adam’s race.

“What think ye of Christ? whose son is He?” (Mat. 22:42)

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