The Virgin Birth

At
the time of Christ's birth there were several virgin birth stories circulating
around the Mediterranean, such as Mithra and Asclepius, who boasted virgin birth stories of their own
God-saviors. Christianity was not the first religion to hold such a doctrine.
The virgin birth story appears only in the first two chapters of Matthew and
Luke, and in contradicting style and content. Most biblical scholars agree that
these two chapters were added in later, around 80 CE. Both narratives have
genealogies, but extremely different from one to another. Matthew includes four
women in his genealogy in a day when women were rarely included in genealogies.
Why? What did these four women have in common? The answers might shock you. Why
didn't the other apostles and early Christian leaders ever mention the virgin
birth, when to do so would have certainly been to their advantage.
And what about myth vs. mystery. Are their no truths
in myth that cause us to discover meanings deeper than
empirical fact? These and many more questions are uncovered in insightful and
persuasive ways that give the reader a deeper sense of value in the virgin
birth story, albeit... mystery or myth.