If the Apostles’ Creed’s statement that Jesus ‘descended into hell’ can be reinterpreted in the light of the shift away from an ancient cosmology as a way of depicting his full experience of death and its consequences or the Nicene Creed’s statement that ‘he came down from heaven’ can be taken in a non-literal fashion as utilizing ancient cosmological mythology to articulate the notion of incarnation, there should be no impediment to reinterpreting the virginal conception in the light of the shift away from an ancient biology.49
