“virgin birth” Yeah, impossible (not improbable) is the correct word.
You don’t have to be an ignorant bonehead to be a good Christian.
Parthenogenesis (where an offspring develops from an unfertilized egg) occurs in certain species, but not in mammals. Period.
Taking the position that Mary somehow managed this trick is equivalent to saying the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Maybe an Angel shot her with a fertilisation Ray gun?
In point of fact, the Church did take this position—that the universe revolved around the Earth—until people started laughing out loud at them during church services and they couldn’t be hustled outside and burned fast enough.
I don’t think you got all your oars in the water.
Just saying...
The Church did not take this position because geocentrism was in the Bible, because it is not in the Bible. The Church took this position because it was in the writings of Aristotle, and in the middle ages, Aristotle was the next best thing to, well, Jesus, and so anything Aristotle said HAD to be correct, however boneheaded it happened to be.
As C. S. Lewis put it, whenever you start promoting "Christianity and," whatever comes after the "and" eventually becomes more important to you than the Christianity--and that would be true whether the "and" were Aristotle, as it was throughout much of the last millennium, or social justice, as it was with King, and is essentially with all Christian progressivists before, during, and after King.
And one more thing...
Parthenogenesis (where an offspring develops from an unfertilized egg) occurs in certain species, but not in mammals. Period.
But the Bible doesn't claim that Jesus developed from an unfertilized egg. It claims that Jesus was born of a virgin. It has nothing to say about the physical aspects of the conception: one either accepts it was an act of divine intervention, or one does not.
Parthenogenesis (where an offspring develops from an unfertilized egg) occurs in certain species, but not in mammals. Period.
Taking the position that Mary somehow managed this trick is equivalent to saying the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Maybe an Angel shot her with a fertilisation Ray gun?
In point of fact, the Church did take this position—that the universe revolved around the Earth—until people started laughing out loud at them during church services and they couldn’t be hustled outside and burned fast enough.
The result of "theistic evolutionism" being accepted as "orthodox," ladies and gentlemen!
No wonder you're such a fan of King. You share his "religious" beliefs.