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Ever wonder why Jesus had to come by a virgin birth? There is a concrete reason.
The virgin birth is unique in that it is the only miracle concerning Jesus' earthly ministry that was without witnesses.
In fact, neither Jesus or anyone else during His life time is recorded as mentioning or knowing He was virgin born.
Do be able to do what He was sent to do, Jesus HAD to be virgin born.
The bible says Adam sinned and became spiritually dead. Thus, according to the rule set up during creation, "Everything after its kind", Adam could only have spiritually dead offspring. (Forget original sin, it is unbiblical)
To save mankind, Jesus not only had to redeem us from our past and future sins, but from our spiritually dead state.
The bible calls Jesus the "new man" and contrasts Him with Adam whom it calls the old man. Our line of ancestry went back to Adam, who was spiritually dead.
Jesus had to break that line, and start a new line, spiritually alive, and then somehow hook us into that lineage.
So Jesus became God's first born of the new line, and all who believe on Him, He will kill, (be crucified with Him), recreate, (be born again) and resurrect (on the last day)
Had Jesus had an earthly mother and father, he would Himself have been in Adam's line. For a new line, Jesus could not be a genetic descendant of Adam.
That is why Jesus birth had to be of the Holy Spirit. It was not just a miracle for the sake of a miracle.
It had to be in order for the salvation plan God designed to work. So for born again Christians today, our line of ancestry terminates in Jesus, not Adam.
That is why the bible says we already have eternal life, because anyone born in Jesus' line is like Jesus. Eternal. And the bible calls us Saints, because saints are what the line of Jesus produces.
It is a great, wonderful and selfless thing Jesus did for us. So we adore Him, and we thank Him, and we praise Him. Because while we were yet sinners, dead in sin, He loved us and died for us.
He made the first move, when we didn't deserve it, and came down into a world we had polluted into a hellhole, to save us
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