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The Bible’s answer. The Bible says that Mary, the mother of Jesus, had the unique privilege of giving birth to him while she was still a virgin. The Bible foretold this miracle in the book of Isaiah and reported its fulfillment in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. In a prophecy about the appearance of the Messiah, Isaiah foretold: “Look!
The rosary is a religious exercise in honor of the Virgin Mary. The term also refers to the string of beads used to count prayers. “Five sets of ten beads, separated by an individual bead,” explains the same book, “are an invitation to fifty recitations of ‘Hail Mary’, five of ‘Our Father’, and five of ‘Glory be to the Father.’”
As Gabriel put it, “with God no declaration will be an impossibility.” (Luke 1:37) Mary accepted Gabriel’s words as truth, for she was a young woman of great faith. However, that faith was not gullibility. Like any reasoning person, Mary needed evidence on which to base her faith.
Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. This feast celebrates the belief that Jesus’ mother ascended to heaven with her physical body. “This belief,” says Religion and Society —Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism, “was unknown in the early church and there is no reference to it in Scripture.” Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Episode 1: The True Light of the World. Miraculous events herald the Messiah’s appearance. This scripture reveals details about the life of Jesus Christ before he came to earth as a human. Some claim that Jesus’ virgin birth was the Immaculate Conception. Does the Bible support this teaching?
Luke 1:37. Or “no word from God will ever fail.”. Or possibly, “nothing will be impossible for God.”. The Greek word rendered “declaration,” can refer to “a word; a saying; a declaration.”. Or it can refer to “a thing; the thing spoken of,” whether an event, an action described, or the result of what has been declared.
Mary humbly did God’s will. She was engaged to Joseph when an angel appeared to her and announced that she would become pregnant and give birth to the long-awaited Messiah. (Luke 1:26-33) She willingly accepted her role. After Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph had four sons together and at least two daughters. So Mary did not remain a virgin.
The Bible’s answer. The Bible often calls Jesus “the Son of God.” (John 1:49) The expression “Son of God” acknowledges that God is the Creator, or Source, of all life, including that of Jesus. (Psalm 36:9; Revelation 4:11) The Bible does not teach that God literally fathered a child in the same way that humans produce children.
About 2,000 years ago, Jehovah miraculously used his holy spirit to transfer Jesus’ life from heaven to the womb of a young virgin woman named Mary. In this way, Jesus was born as a human. (Read Luke 1:34, 35.) Jesus came to earth to be the promised Messiah, or Christ, and to save humankind.
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