Virgin Birth.  The method God chose to incarnate His eternal Son as a human being (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38; 2:1-20; John 1:1-3, 14).  Jesus was conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary by virtue of the power of the Holy Spirit.  Jesus had a human mother but no human father.  In the virgin birth Jesus inherited all human characteristics that make one a man, but without any vestige of sin.  At the same time Jesus retained all of His “Godness,” so that Jesus is a one-of-a-kind hybrid – 100% man and 100% God combined in one man for the rest of eternity.  The virgin birth of Christ was predicted in  Isaiah 7:14 and fulfilled as recorded in Matt. 1:18-25.

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