THE VIRGIN BIRTH Fact or Myth? - John R Schroeder - June 1985

John R Schroeder

Liberal theologians have long denied the divinity of Jesus, the resurrection story and other tenets of traditional doctrine. Of more recent date the virgin birth has been attacked with particular vehemence in Britain. Some five years ago Angela Tilby wrote in the London Times: "Of all the articles of the Christian faith, none is more widely disbelieved than the virgin birth. The idea that God the Son took flesh from a human mother and was born as a man without the aid of a human father strikes many modern Christians as absurd and incredible." Much more recently a prominent bishop commented that "we have no right to insist on the literal truth of the story about the virgin birth of Jesus" (The Times, November 27, 1984). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library