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Originally Posted by Timotheist

Now on to the most difficult part of the research. Just how did the virgin birth stories get invented? Even I myself need more evidence than the LXX's mistranslation of Isa 7:14. How did the star get into the narrative? Where did that come from? Since the epistles, the Acts, Mark and John do not mention it, how did it get into the mainstream belief so quickly?

I have been going over extra-biblical material from the first century. A story is starting to form, but the "smoking gun" has not been found (I figured this would be the case, because people a lot smarter than me have gone over this material). Instead, I have found evidence of cover-up. Documents that are "lost" to us were not accidentally lost, they were destroyed. What is left is a thin paper trail that only provides some hints.

You started out telling us that you washed the slate clean, and then went researching to see where the evidence led you.

By now it has become clear that you have an agenda, and are shoehorning all appropriate data to fit it.