For many young Christians the importance of the virgin birth of Jesus is overlooked. I remember the first time the importance was explained to me, it made a lot a sense, but had it not been addressed I wouldn’t have thought much more of it other than another miracle that could have only been from God.
It’s ture that a virgen birth seems even more like a miracle than a regular birth, but it goes much further than that.
For Jesus to be perfect, He needed to bypass the sinful gene that has been passed down through Adam after he fell in the garden along with Eve. Man passes this gene, not the woman, so the virgin birth bypassed it.
When Jesus died on that cross, He died as a perfect sacrifice for everyone who accepts His death in the place of theirs. He was God, and God’s Blood can wash away our sins. If Jesus was just another man entering in as a sinner, there is no significance of the cross.
By bypassing the sin gene, Jesus was God and Jesus was a perfect man.
Luke 1:28-35 – 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.