The Virgin Birth Illegitimate - The Nativity of Jesus Christ - Bill Zuersher

The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian doctrine that Jesus was conceived and born by his mother Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse. It is mentioned only in Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 1:26-38, and the modern scholarly consensus is that the narrative rests on very slender historical foundations.

The ancient world had no understanding that male semen and female ovum were both needed to form a fetus; this cultural milieu was conducive to miraculous birth stories, and tales of virgin birth and the impregnation of mortal women by deities were well known in the 1st-century Greco-Roman world and Second Temple Jewish works. Matthew and Luke use the virgin birth (or more accurately the divine conception that precedes it) to mark the moment when Jesus becomes the Son of God, in distinction to Mark, for whom the Sonship dates from Jesus's baptism,[Mark 1:9-13] and Paul and the pre-Pauline Christians for whom Jesus becomes the Son only at the Resurrection or even the Second Coming.

The Eastern Orthodox Churches accept the doctrine as authoritative by reason of its inclusion in the Nicene Creed, and the Catholic Church likewise holds it authoritative for faith through the Apostles' Creed as well as the Nicene. Christians, including Protestants, traditionally regard it as an explanation of the mixture of the human and divine natures of Jesus. Nevertheless, there are many contemporary churches in which it is considered orthodox to accept the virgin birth but not heretical to deny it.

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Time-stamps
0:00: Introduction
6:02: Virginity in the ancient Jewish world
9:47: The nativity of Jesus: unpacking the story
16:38: Possible precursors to the story: biblical and pagan
25:14: Geopolitical context of the rising of Christianity
29:07: Is the virgin birth borrowed?
32:44: Hardships that the virgin birth impose on Christianity
47:56: Historical implications of this doctrine
53:09: End of presentation and remarks from Derek
57:07: Validating virginity: a funny story from the Babilonian Talmud
1:04:10: Why did the Magi stopped at Herod’s palace if they already knew the way?
1:09:34: Why do the gospel authors inserted a genealogy?
1:12:50: Is Bill Zuersher a mythicist or historicist?
1:15:25: What was the influence of the gentiles on the virgin birth motif?

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