Importance of the Virgin Birth

Every year we have to have the silly debate in the media about the Virgin Birth. The claim is that Christians are not enlightened if they believe in such a silly miracle. So how do Christians often respond? "Well, that isn't necessary to believe to be a Christian." But is this true?

Albert Mohler discusses the question on his Blog:

Must one believe in the Virgin Birth to be a Christian? This is not a hard question to answer. It is conceivable that someone might come to Christ and trust Christ as Savior without yet learning that the Bible teaches that Jesus was born of a virgin. A new believer is not yet aware of the full structure of Christian truth. The real question is this: Can a Christian, once aware of the Bible's teaching, reject the Virgin Birth? The answer must be no.

Mohler is right. If we are to give into the idea that one doesn't have to believe in the Virgin Birth, then we inadvertantly give away the farm. There is far more at stake than just one "little" miracle.

By rejecting the Virgin Birth of Christ the result becomes a rejection of a worldview...a supernatural worldview. It is the surrounding worldviews that Christians are to oppose and in fact convert. As the Scripture says, "The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord."

When we start with a man centered naturalistic, materialistic or atheistic approach to knowledge and the way in which we view the world, by definition we must reject Christ. This kind of thinking only leads to self destruction and as the Scripture says, "Professing to be wise, they became fools." It leads to foolishness.

Some have asked me if God is true, then why are there so many religions to choose from. The answer is quite simple. When man starts with himself, then for every man there will be a new theory or religion or philosophy of the world. Dr. White was correct in his debate against Dr. John Crossan (former Jesus Seminar Scholar) when he said that for every Liberal Scholar, you have a new version of Jesus that often looks like the scholar himself [my own paraphrase].

We as Christians must call a world to repent and believe in a crucified and resurrected Savior. We call men to repent of their their arrogance and self appointed godgood. We must call men to repent of their thinking about themselves and their view of the world. It is simply arrogant of man to start anywhere outside of his Creator for knowledge about the world, himself or most importantly, the Creator.