One of the greatest obstacles to becoming who God created us to be is the IMAGE that religion has made of Jesus. Jesus was a man who made the trip, completed the journey, and showed the universe that man can have eternal life. Nails and a cross are only “effects” that cannot destroy the Spirit within us all. As with all of humanity Jesus was not perfect (there are no absolutes in the 3rd dimension of life), but he attained perfection. And in so doing He showed us that WE CAN TOO!
I don’t need the virgin birth to complete Jesus!
I assume that the early fathers and writers felt that they needed to compete with all the other religions that had virgin births! I mean how could Jesus be supreme if he wasn’t born of a virgin?
Wasn’t the resurrection enough? 
Were it not for four chapters in the Bible (Matthew 1,2 and Luke 1,2), there would be NO KNOWLEDGE of a virgin birth. Why didn’t Mark say something about it? Why didn’t John mention it? Why didn’t Paul ever reference it?
Think RESURRECTION!
Jesus was the Son of God who showed the world that when we are ONE with the Father we can become perfect, but even Jesus had to LEARN OBEDIENCE! He wasn’t into the “hot sins” that we are so alarmed about today: however, He did judge, dishonored His parents, and wasn’t kind to a woman in need of just a few crumbs from the table.
For me SIN is separation from God, and Jesus never separated Himself from God so therein He was sinless, but not perfect (separate out those two words that we think mean the same).
Being separate from God is missing the mark (Harmartia=sin), but then we get up and take another shot at life. The LIFE and death of Jesus is more than enough to prove His divinity. I don’t need to add yet another “virgin story” to the plot to make Him divine!
Maybe you do and I’m fine with that. 
I have to say that I flinched when I read the title of this article. After so many years of Good-ol-Baptist/religious training, it’s still ingrained into my psyche that part of being “saved” is to believe in the Virgin Birth; without one of the three mandatory components of salvation, one just “isn’t saved,” right?
Then I being to question if everything I know is accurate as it pertains to God and what was originally intended before scribes butchered the scriptures.
It’s unconfortable for me to arrive at a place where I question what I always thought was unquestionable.
That’s why it’s called the Cloud Of Unknowing. Until we begin to wrestle with what we “think” we know, we’re not walking in faith, and most probably in arrogance and comfortability.
Why discount the christianity’s virgin birth and validate the others? The other virgins all gave birth to great men, maybe that was a pattern God used to bring significance to the soon to be culture shapers.
There are other books on the virgin birth that was not canonized namely the book of Mary. This book accounts for the life of Mary and her mystical ways and her miraculous birth, the book was about mary and her faithfulness to God and why God chose her. It(Jesus) was a favor(gift) to Mary because
she communed with God and the angels as if they were her personal playmates. This glorified Mary more than Jesus so these writings were left out. But Matthew and Luke only repeated a common knowledge of Jesus’ birth and the other disciples didn’t feel the need to repeat the already known fact.
Jesus was a by-product of Mary’s faith. So jesus wasn’t the reason for the virgin birth Mary was…. (the chosen vessel)
Why would it be so hard to believe that something good can come from a woman without the help of the man’s reproductive organ?
Again the virgin birth was about mary not jesus that’s why the story makes no sense.
The subject matter in this post was about JESUS (not Mary) and IF a “virgin birth story” was needed to prove His divinity. My take is that His life and resurrection is more than enough to prove He was the Son of God.
I don’t need yet another Deember 25th virgin birth story (many came before Jesus and they were celebrated on Dec. 25th also). I’m sure Mary was a remarkable woman of faith, but………..
I agree