By Sodium
Reciting Question (7):
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" How could Mary have been a pregnant virgin 2000 years before in vitro fertilization ? "
Stephen Miller says that it is difficult to believe in pregnant virgins before the advancement of twenty first century in sciences which has made pregnant virgins medically, scientifically and technically quite possible. He further refers to the fact that the Virgin Mary's pregnancy was mentioned only by Mathew and Luke in the Bible. And Mathew has mentioned it only once in the Bible and has never mentioned again. Mathew's gospel has the following narrative about Virgin Mary:
" While she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit " ( Mathew 1:18 NTL ).
It is obvious to the writer of this blog that the above foregoing is an attempt to throw doubts about the pregnancy of a virgin in ancient time. However, the Christians themselves do not seem to agree on this issue either. Some Christians ask the following question:
" Why it's so tough to believe that God could accomplish 2,000 years ago what human can do today (?) "
But, some other Christians encountered the above question with the following comments, as stated by Miller:
" They doubt this part of the story ( Virgin Mary's Pregnancy ) not because the gospels of Mark and John skip it; those gospels skip everything that has anything to do with Jesus' birth and childhood."
Still, some other Christians say they "doubt the virgin birth for other reasons, too " And their other reasons are the following ones:
" * Mathew and Luke never mention it again, and it could be deleted without affecting anything else in their stories--almost as it got edited in.."
" * Apart from Mary's song of praise to God in Luke ( 's gospel ), Jesus family never mentioned it."
" * No one else in the Bible mentioned it. "
Based on the above narrative, it is difficult to decide which one of the thoughts or rather one of the opinion mentioned above is closer to the truth; and which thought can be rejected out of hand immediately, since each thought, or rather each opinion, stands on its own merits.
Final Words
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Since Christians themselves cannot agree on the pregnancy of Virgin Mary, one may understand why Stephen Miller has risen the question in the first place.
What is troubling from such doubts is the reflection on certain verses of the Qur'an in which the name of the Virgin Mary is mentioned, so many times, explicitly and beautifully expressing honor and reverence for the Virgin Mary. In other words, the doubts that are being raised by some Christians, about Virgin Mary's pregnancy, cannot be ignored with their connections to specific narratives, concerning the Virgin Mary in the Qur'an. All that must not mean that such specific narratives in the Qur'an have become in doubt too. Not at all. Because what one can gather from all of the above debate only different opinions that must be brought up in the open for better understanding of what's in the Bible. However, opinions remain just that: " Opinion ." They all could have been wrong in their doubts, including the opinion of Mr. Stephen Miller.
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