The Virgin Birth Really Happened!

True Story: Unwrapping the Truth About Christmas

Part 3: The Virgin Birth Really Happened!

14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14

34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” 35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Luke 1:34-35

18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Matthew 1:18

The fundamental reason that many skeptics doubt the Virgin Birth is because they have a bias against the .

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless

and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was

hovering over the waters. Genesis 1:1-2

Can modern, educated people really believe in a Creator God?

Belief in a has actually worldwide in recent years and is !

Hasn’t science disproved Christianity?

Science doesn’t Christianity, it it!

“The first modern scientists didn’t exclude supernatural causes from their experiments because they believed there were no supernatural causes, but because they believed everything was supernaturally caused.” — Professor Hans Halvorson

28 Do you not know?

    Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

    the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

    and his understanding no one can fathom. Isaiah 40:28

16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. Colossians 1:16

“Christians believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus. Atheists believe in the virgin birth of the universe. Choose your miracle.” — Glen Scrivener

The Virgin Birth might have been believed in the first century, but are people really willing to buy that today?

It’s wrong to say that miracles like the Virgin Birth made sense to ancient people because they didn’t have all the medical and we have today.

Wasn’t the Virgin Birth borrowed from other religions?

• Jesus is fully God and fully man; He is , but came into this world through the .
• The Gospels put Jesus in a context.

Why is the Virgin Birth an essential for the Christian faith?

1) The Virgin Birth is central to Scripture’s .

2) The Virgin Birth is central to the of Christ.

3) The Virgin Birth is an example of God’s on our behalf.

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17