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The story of the virgin birth is probably important to some Christians because it seems so impossible that it must be true, and Jesus must truly be the son of God. Such believers overlook the fact that the virgin birth was reported by anonymous authors up to a hundred years after the virgin birth supposedly occurred. Even if the Gospels of Mathew and Luke really had been written by Matthew and Like, as decided by the second-century Church Fathers, they could not have been eyewitnesses and could not have known. Moreover, John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus), says the nativity stories contain no historical truth.

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