Virgin birth?

[Sparks]

5 hours ago, RV_Wizard said:

That's not exactly true.  We do not inherit sin.  We have plenty of our own sins.  We are born with a corrupted spirit and a tendency to rebel against God.  That said, we considered sinless until we reach the age where we can understand right and wrong.  That's why Jesus told us to be like young children, in whom there is no blame.  There are none who remain sinless.  Only Jesus resisted sin all His life.  

If we inherited sin we could not be held responsible for sin.  We do bear responsibility for every sin we committed.  For this reason, but for the blood sacrifice of Christ, we would be forever buried under the weight of our sins.  Jesus paid the blood debt owed for our sins.  We are saved, then, by grace, through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  No other atonement could remove our sins from us. 

Mary was a virgin until after Christ was born.  Then she and Joseph were married.  She bore him daughters and sons, one of which was James.  James converted after the resurrection.  At the cross, Jesus gave the care of Mary to John.  Mary was a good and pious woman, but she was certainly not a deity and also was not without sin.  John provided for her until her death.  

Many deny the fact that she was a wife and a mother to other children, like they deny things that are written and teach things which are not written.  When in doubt, read the book.

I am afraid we do inherit original sin, but you are right in that we have plenty of our own personal sin.  You can see inherited sin here, in Psalms:

Psalm 51:5 (NLT) For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.

King David wrote that, acknowledging sin is inherited at birth, and that we were conceived in sin.  You mentioned yourself the corrupt condition in which we are born.

[farouk]

8 hours ago, RV_Wizard said:

That's not exactly true.  We do not inherit sin.  We have plenty of our own sins.  We are born with a corrupted spirit and a tendency to rebel against God.  That said, we considered sinless until we reach the age where we can understand right and wrong.  That's why Jesus told us to be like young children, in whom there is no blame.  There are none who remain sinless.  Only Jesus resisted sin all His life.  

If we inherited sin we could not be held responsible for sin.  We do bear responsibility for every sin we committed.  For this reason, but for the blood sacrifice of Christ, we would be forever buried under the weight of our sins.  Jesus paid the blood debt owed for our sins.  We are saved, then, by grace, through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  No other atonement could remove our sins from us. 

Mary was a virgin until after Christ was born.  Then she and Joseph were married.  She bore him daughters and sons, one of which was James.  James converted after the resurrection.  At the cross, Jesus gave the care of Mary to John.  Mary was a good and pious woman, but she was certainly not a deity and also was not without sin.  John provided for her until her death.  

Many deny the fact that she was a wife and a mother to other children, like they deny things that are written and teach things which are not written.  When in doubt, read the book.

Romans 5.12-15: "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

¹³ (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

¹⁵ But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many."