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Originally Posted by zeek
The evidence for the virgin birth of Jesus consists entirely of the stories in Matthew and Luke which are based on a spurious interpretation of Isaiah 7:14, have no external support . . .
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I think I know what you are saying, that, we have no other evidence for the VB accept that found in Matthew and Luke.
However, there was external support back then for virgin births. The idea of virgin births were in common currency in the milieu of the day. So Jesus, to compete, had to be at least as great as all the others born of a virgin.
Plus, by the time Matthew and Luke were written, a virgin birth would make Jesus more acceptable to the pagans, that were, because of Paul, coming in in droves.
I'm just saying that this could be one possible explanation, that motivated including the VB in the two Jesus stories.