Was Jesus really born of a virgin?

Was Jesus immaculately conceived (born of a virgin)?

To this day, there are many cultures that consider sex to be a base and vile act. In the time of Jesus, the Essenes (the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls) considered sexual intercourse to be the lowest of acts and went out of their way to reduce any form of pleasure from the process including minimising body to body contact.

This was achieved by sexual intercourse being performed standing with a stretched sheet/screen placed between the couple with only the opening for copulation to take place.

Such lengths to eliminate any form of pleasure and remain as pure of mind and body was considered a supreme act of piety and honoured in the Essene culture as a pure, or "virginal" birth.

Today, many pious muslims perform the act of sexual intercourse with similar restraint in honour of the Prophet Muhammad's teachings on the wickedness of the flesh.

Of course, for 99% of the rest of us, such extreme acts of faith are an alien concept, as they would for most Jews, Romans and Greeks at the time of Jesus. The point is, to a person of limited education and knowledge of such cultural practice, a phrase of pure or "virginal" birth might easily be misinterpreted as literally immaculate conception.

When combined with other zealous enhancements to the supernatural and paranormal storis of the life of Jesus, it would make perfect sense that he was literally immacutalely conceived.

Ancient pagan traditions of "Virgin" birth

There is of course much stronger evidence that the title of "Virgin" birth is nothing more than the application of symbolic pagan folklore by Paul of Tarsus (St. Paul) and other early church fathers to the story of the life of Jesus.

Son of God born December 24th/25th

Saviour/God	Culture/Religion	Year of Origin
Tammuz	Syria	2000 BCE
Horus	Egypt	1900 BCE
Mithra	Persia/Babylon	1650 BCE
Dionysus	Phoenicia/Syria	1500 BCE
Krishna	Hindu	1140 BCE
Heracles/Hercules	Greece	690 BCE
Buddha	India	620 BCE
Bacchus	Rome	500 BCE
Quetzalcoatl	Mexico, Hopi	400 BCE
Adonis	Greece	400 BCE
Jesus	Christianity	44 CE

Son of God born from virgin and immaculate conception

Saviour/God	Virgin Mother	Culture/Religion	Year of Origin
Attis	Cybele	Turkey/Anatolia	2100 BCE
Tammuz	Ishtar	Syria	2000 BCE
Shamgar	Anat	Mari, Syria	2000 BCE
Horus	Isis	Egypt	1900 BCE
Horon	Astarte	Phoenicia/Syria	1750 BCE
Dionysus	Semele	Phoenicia/Syria	1500 BCE
Krishna	Maia	Hindu	1140 BCE
Heracles/Hercules	Alcmene	Greece	690 BCE
Buddha	Maya	India	620 BCE
Quetzalcoatl	Cihuacoatl	Mexico, Hopi	400 BCE
Adonis	Io	Greece	400 BCE
Jesus	Mary	Christianity	44 CE

Mother of "Saviour" known as "Queen of Heaven"

Saviour/God	Virgin Mother	Culture/Religion	Year of Origin
Attis	Cybele	Turkey/Anatolia	2100 BCE
Tammuz	Inanna,Ishtar	Mesopotamia	2000 BCE
Shamgar	Anat	Mari, Syria	2000 BCE
Horus	Isis	Egypt	1900 BCE
Horon	Astarte/Ashtoreth	Phoenicia/Syria	1500 BCE
Jesus	Mary	Christianity	44 CE

These tables of historically accurate gods and belief systems are not a collection of rare and escoteric cultures but the largest and most important pagan systems of Europe, Asia and the Middle East at the time of Jesus. In other words, the dominant "christian" religions of their day.

If Christians had not deliberately destroyed every single ancient library and storehouse of ancient knowledge then there would be an overwhelming array of evidence to procve the fraudulent claims of "virginal birth".

Modern physics overcoming superstitition

Of course the problem today is that Christians are better informed on the laws of Physics and the universe than ever before, knowing that such events defy every law of the universe, yet are still asked to pledge faith to this specific belief.

Moreso, any question of possible honest mistaken misinterpretation by less informed/educated translators of the past is met with sometimes violent protest by the various Christian churches who uphold the concept of immaculate conception as an absolute article of faith.

The net result is a separation of the real world from the religious world and the existence of an inner conflict of logic in the mind of any thinking Christian that ultimately distracts from the essential message of the Gospels- the words of Jesus Christ.

If you were to meet Jesus Christ in the street today, do you honesty think he'd care about whether he was immaculately conceived or not, or do you think he'd be more interested in what you are doing to help make the world a better place?

That is the problem of orthodoxy and dogma- it entrenches power and problems, rather than solves it. That was the problem Jesus was tying to overcome two thousand years ago. Now, like weeds orthodoxy and dogma has come again to try and choke his message out of view.

With such an incredible direct intervention against all the known laws of science and physics, why then did God stop with the astounding miracles of the physical Jesus? Why not make him ten foot tall?- certainly such as feat is technically much easier then defying all the known laws of reproduction of life? Why not give him skin like steel, like superman? Why not give him the ability to fly?

Of course, most Christian scholars would consider such questions a set of exaggerations just to prove a point. And they are. The point is that the belief of immaculate conception falls down for the very reason that as a singular event against the known laws of physics it makes no sense. If Jesus was born to be a man, then there is no way his birth would have defied physics. Yet if God wanted Jesus to be born as a God, then God would have defied all the laws and make him a Superman.

You can't have it both ways. One or the other. Ultimately it is up to you the reader to believe in your own mind.


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