{"id":2203,"date":"2007-12-21T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2007-12-21T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T10:06:00","slug":"do-you-believe-in-the-virgin-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"Do you believe in the Virgin Birth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people give their answers (including Rowan) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/features\/400066\/do-you-believe-in-the-virgin-birth.thtml\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Doug&#8217;s been writing some interesting stuff on this recently (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacatholic.co.uk\/2007\/12\/the-virgin-birth-lukes-new-creation-story\/\">here <\/a>is the latest).<\/p>\n<p>My problem remains how to reconcile Jesus&#8217; humanity with his special creation; or, put differently, I don&#8217;t see why God&#8217;s creative activity _has_to_ conflict with the normal processes of reproduction. Incarnation isn&#8217;t dependent on it; indeed, I suspect that the story was developed in order to support the doctrine of the incarnation and now works to accomplish the precise opposite. Either way it&#8217;s an extremely marginal belief and not essential to faith.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people give their answers (including Rowan) here. Doug&#8217;s been writing some interesting stuff on this recently (here is the latest). My problem remains how to reconcile Jesus&#8217; humanity with his special creation; or, put differently, I don&#8217;t see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","category-virgin-birth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-zx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}