Doubt planted by the thoughts of men rather than relying on Gods Word
In what way would Mary's neighbours have not relied on God's Word if they saw her pregnant and unmarried, and considered that there was at least a chance that the pregnancy was caused by fornication?
Jesus was actually God's very first creation his Only begotten son
But Adam wasn't begotten, was he? Was Eve begotten? Apparently, God can create people without "begetting" them.
Jesus was not conceived by a magical creature, he was transfered from heaven to Marys womb, which I said in the previous post
The Biblical account is that He was conceived in the Holy Spirit... i.e a magical creature, just like I said.
In any case, again, what reason would Mary's neighbours or Jesus' acquaintances have had to take your version as true? They see a pregnant, unwed woman; even taking as given that somehow, they decided that the baby wasn't the product of good old-fashioned fornication, how do they get from "Mary's pregnant" to "Mary's child is the Son of God"?
If the devil was his father would he keep trying to tempt him and say If you are a Son Of God? Also would Jesus being the kind of man he was tell his father to "Go Away"? I doubt that very much
I don't know. I imagine that if I was the son of Satan, I wouldn't be very keen on that fact.
However, again, would Jesus' neighbours and acquaintances have had access to the Gospel According to Matthew?
In citing all the scripture that you did, the message I get from you is that the real reason people believe that Jesus is the Son of God is
that the Bible says so... not that He was born of a virgin. You said that He had to be born of a virgin so that there would be no doubt He was the Son of God, however, there's still lots of doubt:
- a woman who
claims to be a virgin isn't necessarily so. In fact, pregnant women who claim to be virgins are almost universally
not virgins.
- even when you allow for supernatural causes for the pregnancy, that supernatural cause isn't necessarily God directly.
- even when you allow for supernatural causes and decide that the cause is God directly, there are conceivable (no pun intended) methods that God might use that wouldn't imply that God is the child's literal father.
The only way this doubt can be resolved is with a ton of explanation, like angels coming down from Heaven to proclaim things, or spelling things out clearly (?) in a written work like the Bible. However, these ways of resolving doubt would work just as well if Jesus were conceived after Mary and Joseph were married, if he was found in a basket floating in the river, or if he crash-landed in an escape capsule/asteroid thing Superman style.
IOW, if you go with a literal interpretation of the Bible, there really is
no reason why Jesus was born of a virgin and not born or created some other way. The possible reasons for having Him be born of a virgin deal with things like metaphor and symbolism, which point toward a literary source for at least this aspect of the Gospel story rather than a historical or factual source.