Was Jesus really the son of God or did Mary just cheat on Joseph and used that excuse as a cover up?

Answer 1

Not only was Our Blessed Lord the natural Son of God, but this has been proven beyond any possible doubt through the Scriptures alone. There were literally hundreds of direct prophecies of the Messiah all throughout the Old Testament Scriptures, for every single one of them to be fulfilled exactly is so improbably that I believe the odds would be astronomical like 1 out of several trillion or some otherwise ridiculous number.

There are dozens and dozens or prophecies concerning the virgin birth, again all fulfilled, and every single thing in the Scriptures agrees. Furthermore, the Church, which is the Body of Christ, and is incapable of misleading anyone in doctrine - Our Blessed Lord, Himself, guaranteed that it would teach "all truth" until the end of the world, has consistently, since day one, maintained that the Blessed Virgin Mary was a Virgin BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER the birth of Our Blessed Lord. This has been defined dogma of the Church and has been believed since the very first century.

To maintain that the Mother of God had "relations" with anyone, ever, is a slur of the very worst kind against the Mother of God, and of His Church, and against Our Blessed Lord Himself, and is a dreadful heretical statement that no self-respecting Christian would let stand for a minute.

I live in the southern United States, there is no worst insult that you can give to a boy or a man here than to say something disrespectful about his mother. As terrible an insult as that can be in Georgia or the Carolinas, it would be nothing compared to making such an insult against God, Himself, and the woman that He chose from all eternity as His Spouse, and Mother.

Under normal circumstances, I would not give this question the dignity of an answer, but in this day and age, people just do not understand how grave an insult this is not only to God, but to any believing Christian, so I thought that I should address it just so that you realize how gravely insulting such an insinuation is. And how unforgivable it is to say such a thing about the Mother of our Blessed Savior.

Answer 2

I am going to take a middle position here, because I believe that to be the correct position. The two nativity stories, in Matthew and Luke, are so mutually incompatible that at least one, and probably both, must be a literary creation by the authors of the gospels. The position of most scholars is that the stories of the birth of Jesus are simply not based on fact, and that there was no virgin birth, no angels and no wise men or shepherds who came to worship Jesus.
It suited the early Christians to believe that Jesus was born of a virgin and the authors of Matthew and Luke, each in his own way, accommodated them. So, we do not know the circumstances of Jesus' birth, and there is no reason to believe that Mary cheated on Joseph.

Answer 3

Another answer from our comunity:

Yes Jesus is very much the son of god. He came to die for sinners like you and me.