I end this three-part series today with the primary reason that I cannot accept a virgin birth story. It’s not that I don’t need one, which I don’t. It’s not because there are dozens of virgin birth stories prior to Jesus, and there were. It’s not because everyone but Luke and Matthew are silent and never mention a virgin birth, which silence speaks volumes. I take the position against the literalness (myth) of the virgin birth story, because for me you can’t eat your cake and keep it too. You can’t say that God was fully man as ancient creeds have, and then say He was supernaturally born. Or at least I can’t! How does that work? Other than just saying that it does?
And then there are all these IDOLS that have come from creating a supernatural birth.
We’ve got Mariology, the Annuncion, and the Immaculate Conception. I’m sorry but I just don’t get it, and I can’t doctrinally doctor it up from the RED in the New Testament, etc. Whatever is meant by the “divinity of Jesus“, it has nothing to do with his birth- at least not for me.
Yes, Jesus was the Son of God and as Paul says we are all sons of God, while still maintaining that unique status of Jesus who became the Christ, and the second person of the trinity. In order for Jesus to fulfill the role as our mediator, substitute for our sins, and model for how we too can and should live life, He had to be fully HUMAN. If not, then what HOPE is there for us? You can go back to August 3-11 for the five part series on how JESUS WAS A MAN series if you need more in depth on this issue.
Let me close with these words from Peter Hamilton (Trinity College scholar), “The virgin birth is not doctrinally necessary: the historical evidence is inconclusive. What matters surely, is to be able to understand, in terms that do not conflict with the rest of one’s philosophy, the central belief which the doctrine of the virgin birth enshrines- that ‘God was in Christ’.”
And if you choose to believe in a virgin birth, we are still both Christians, friends, sojourners, and not enemies! 
When I began to understand our so called ’sin nature’ to be one of sociology and not biology (not born with it, but into it), whether or not Jesus’ birth was a virgin one became a non-issue for me. If the propensity to/for sin is a product of our environment and not one of genetics (and I believe it is), then it is no longer necessary for Jesus to have been conceived supernaturally by a virgin in order for Him to have escaped the ’sin nature’ and be ‘without sin’. So I no longer connect the divinity of Jesus to the manner in which He was conceived.
Me thinks she has it!