The Virgin Birth

Atthe time of Christ's birth there were several virgin birth stories circulatingaround the Mediterranean such as Mithra and Asclepius who boasted virgin birth stories of their ownGod-saviors. Christianity was not the first religion to hold such a doctrine.The virgin birth story appears only in the first two chapters of Matthew andLuke and in contradicting style and content. Most biblical scholars agree thatthese two chapters were added in later around 80 CE. Both narratives havegenealogies but extremely different from one to another. Matthew includes fourwomen in his genealogy in a day when women were rarely included in genealogies.Why? What did these four women have in common? The answers might shock you. Whydidn't the other apostles and early Christian leaders ever mention the virginbirth when to do so would have certainly been to their advantage.And what about myth vs. mystery. Are their no truthsin myth that cause us to discover meanings deeper thanempirical fact? These and many more questions are uncovered in insightful andpersuasive ways that give the reader a deeper sense of value in the virginbirth story albeit... mystery or myth.