Question 201: About the virgin birth of Jesus.
Question 201: Is it important to believe in the virgin birth of Jesus?
No, it isn’t important at all. There is no way to prove a virgin birth. The story may have been added later to reinforce the view that Jesus was the actual son of God. However, to think that Jesus was a special person who came straight from God and was not an ordinary person like everyone else detracts from the example he set. How can we expect to follow in his footsteps if he is God and we are not?
Jesus came to show us the importance of raising our consciousness and finding our inner connection to the Infinite Spirit. That is something we can all do whether or not we were born unto a virgin mother.
The Gospel of Oneness says that we all have an immaculate conception from the very beginning of our existence, whenever that was. Every soul is a unique identity in Spirit. This is what needs to be emphasized, rather than idolizing one person as being the only son of God.
Besides Jesus, other religious figures have also been given origin stories that are rather fantastic, such as Padma Sambhava, the Tibetan yogi was said to be born in a lotus flower. Krishna and Buddha also have stories about them being born in miraculous ways. Even some famous secular persons, such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar have background stories about being born of virgin mothers that were impregnated by divine beings.
If you go back to the last Golden Age, the people may have developed ways to bring forth new life either in or outside the womb of a woman. Cloning is a real process and has to be taken into consideration in producing new life, in animals and human beings. Since Spirit is the only reality, all physical forms will pass away. We are in the process of increasing our realization of Spirit.
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