The fact of the incarnation

The incarnation historically

To Mary (Luke 1:26-35; Jeremiah 31:22)

The angel Gabriel was sent to Mary, a young Hebrew virgin, to announce the birth of the messiah. The message was unequivocal. The child would not be the result of man's seed, but of the Holy Spirit himself, who would overshadow the virgin and put the seed of the Father God into her womb. This kid would be a sinless creation brought about by God's miracle and the response of this pure virgin. These would be unclean about the birth of this child. God would create a sinless, flawless, immortal creation from a sinful, imperfect, and mortal being. This is the marvel of virgin birth. It cannot be explained solely by human or natural sources. In complete trust, Mary accepted the responsibility and challenge of being the mother of the Christ child (Luke 2:34-35).

To Joseph (Matthew 1:18-25)

Matthew breaks the norm of common descent by presenting the miraculous birth of Jesus with "Now the birth of Jesus was on this wise." According to this legend, Mary was discovered with a Holy Spirit child. The Messianic ancestors were males, but the Messiah was born of Mary. When Joseph discovered his espoused wife with a kid, he was ready to cast her away with a bill of divorce rather than stone her to death, as per the Law of Moses.

However, the angel of the Lord came to be known as Jesus; this infant was the result of the Holy Spirit's overshadowing and would be known as Immanuel, "God with us." In faith, Joseph was willing to accept legal custody of the virgin-born child, believing the angel's witness about his espoused wife's purity and the miraculous event of the virgin birth.

The incarnation personally

Jesus himself provided significant evidence of his own origin, including the fact that he was born miraculously. "I came out of God; I came forth from the Father," Jesus declared (John 16:27 with 8:42). Jesus was both David's master (in terms of his deity) and David's son (in terms of his humanity) (Matthew 22:42-46; Rev. 22:16; Psalm 110:1). He claimed God as his father on multiple occasions while never claiming Joseph as his father (John 2:16; 5:17; 8-4; 6:32-40; 8:42).

God, the father, also attested to the son's miraculous birth. He spoke from heaven three times, two of which attested to the fact that "this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:16-18; 17:1-5; John 12:27-29). This was the father accepting responsibility for the manner in which his son was born; it was the father's way of recognizing the virgin birth. Jesus was aware of his pre-existence with the Father, his deity, and his virgin birth as the God-ma. Denying the virgin birth means rejecting both Christ's own testimony and the father's witness.

Theologically, the incarnation

Those who oppose virgin birth argue that the texts of the Epistles never mention it. This is not the case, as they plainly talk of both Christ's deity and humanity, albeit in theological terms. The few citations and references below are the apostolic means of demonstrating the virgin birth's veracity.

To Apostle Paul

The apostle Paul uses several distinct expressions that speak of the incarnation. These provide witness to the fundamental fact of virgin birth. Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, was "made of the seed of David according to the flesh" (Romans 1:3-4). In the fullness of time, God sent forth his son, "made of a woman, made under the law" (Gal. 4:4). "All the fullness of God dwells in Christ."

What is the enigma of godliness? "God was manifested in the flesh" (I Timothy 3:16). "Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he himself also took part in the same" (Heb. 2:14) in order to redeem man from death and the power of the devil. Christ came "as in the likeness of sinful flesh" (Rom. 9:5) from the fathers. Though Christ was born in "the form of God," he humbled himself and took on "the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:5-8). When Jesus became incarnate, he said, "A body hast thou prepared for me" (Heb. 10:5). This body was fully prepared or outfitted to execute God's will.

When God created Adam, he created a body from of earth's dust (Gen. 2:7). When God created Eve, he fashioned a body from Adam's side (Gen. 2:21-22). All other humans obtain their bodies by natural processes, including the union of man and woman, but the body of the Son of God was prepared in the virgin Mary's womb by the power of the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:30-33).

To Peter 

The fact of Christ's Godhead and virgin birth was also revealed to the apostle Peter. Peter declared Jesus Christ to be "the son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16). He was the son of God, not just the son of man, as Jesus claimed. Jesus acknowledged that Peter had received this vision directly from God the Father. This is another way of recognizing the virgin birth, the birth of Christ, and Christ's divine sonship. Christ was predestined as the lamb before the foundation of the world, but he was revealed in these latter days for our redemption (I Peter 1:18-20).

Regarding John

To John 

John also confirmed Christ's deity and humanity. The word was with God in the beginning, and the word was God. This word became flesh and lived among us (John 1:1-3, 14-18; I Peter 4:9-10). This is how John describes the virgin birth. False prophets reject the fact that "Jesus Christ has come in the flesh." Antichrists and deceivers deny and "confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh." All of these brief parallels relate to the incarnation's core truth: Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. He is God in the flesh. The apostles theologically validated the virgin birth as clearly forth historically in the Gospels in their epistles.