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Virgin birth

noun

Human conception without fertilization by a man. Synonyms: parthenogenesis, parthenogeny.

The theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas. Synonym: Nativity.

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... history of doctrine. Having no key in Christ to the unity of Scripture, he becomes a critic of what he is pleased to call its fragments, that is, the dissector of a cadaver. Ask him if he believes in the preexistence, deity, virgin birth, miracles, atoning death, physical resurrection, omnipresence, and omnipotence of Christ, and he denies your right to require of him any statement of his own beliefs. He does not conceive it to be his ...

— A Tour of the Missions - Observations and Conclusions • Augustus Hopkins Strong

... the Seed of the woman, not of the man, as all other human beings are; it makes His conception to have been that of the Holy Spirit; it declares His virgin birth in language that cannot be misunderstood; it makes Him the Son of God, ...

— The Church, the Schools and Evolution • J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

Words linked to "Virgin birth" : agamogenesis, asexual reproduction, nativity, Christian theology, theological doctrine