Is Jesus the only God born of a virgin.?

Question

Not hardly!


Alcmene, mother of Hercules who gave birth on December 25th
Alitta, Babylonian Madonna and Child
Anat, Syrian wife of "the earlier Supreme God El," called "Virgin Goddess"
Cavillaca, Peruvian huaca (divine spirit) impregnated by the "son of the sun god" through eating his semen in the shape of a fruit
Chimalman, mother of Kukulcan
Chinese mother of Foe (Buddha)
Coatlicue, mother of the Mexican god Huitzilopochtli
Cybele, "Queen of Heaven and Mother of God"
Danae, mother of Perseus
Demeter/Ceres, "Holy Virgin" mother of Persephone/Kore and Dionysus
Devaki, mother of Krishna
Frigga, mother of the Scandinavian god Balder
Hera, mother of Zeus's children
Hertha, Teutonic goddess
Isis, who gave birth to Horus on December 25th
Juno, mother of Mars/Ares, called "Matrona" and "Virginalis," the Mother and Virgin
Mandana, mother of Cyrus/Koresh
Maya, mother of Buddha

Answer 1

Well, I would also offer that the beginning of Matthew traces Christ's geneology through Joseph to David. If Christ were immaculately conceived, how would we account for this apparent contradiction?



I'm surprised that you omitted the most relevant personage from this list: Caesar Augustus. He was ascribed to have had a Virgin Birth to fulfill a prediction in Virgil's Eclogues. So to give Christ equal status with Augustus, early biographers gave Christ a virgin birth, too. And, as an interesting sidebar, Virgil's prediction of an upcoming virgin birth would be why Dante made the poet his guide through the Divine Comedy.



I personally believe that Christ was born, lived, taught, died, and rose from the dead. Too many people witnessed His ministry and subsequently sacrificed their lives to spread His word for me to not be convinced. That being said, I believe that a few mythological details were ladled onto Christ's life. That was common practice for virtually all biographers of the day.

Answer 2

enable us see.. The Virgin Mary became conceived by the holy spirit, ideal? it truly is in accordance to the apostle's creed... If a woman had sex, she no longer is a virgin.. some human beings might want to assert that God chooses those women folk who're organic and untouched.. it truly is a guy ingredient, i wager... The holy spirit of route needs someone who had no guy make like to her yet.. The holy spirit should be first.. The Virgin Mary should be quite eye-catching back then, became she? So eye-catching, the Holy Spirit anointed her to be the blessed mom of our savior.. After that, the angels ordered Joseph to drop the challenge.. There are some "pagan" memories that are by some ability akin to this... about how a king became ordered by his god to "no longer" share the mattress at the same time with his queen on a particular evening for this or that reason... it truly is basically pathetic..

Answer 3

Most of the "miracles" in the bible are just rehashed versions of stories that had been floating around for centuries.



It's like if I wanted to write a story about a superhero. The easiest thing to do would just be to borrow ideas from stories already written about other superheroes (great strength and speed, has a cape, had some traumatic event involving a loved one that made him start fighting crime, etc.).



In addition the Christians had to deal with the fact that prophets had already come up with a bunch of things that would indicate when the Messiah had come so several years after Jesus supposedly died (if in fact he ever lived at all) they had to say all those things had happened so it would match up with the prophesies.



Oh, here's a good "explanation" of why the Jesus story seems like a cheap imitation of seevral other stories that came before it ...



Satan knew in advance that Jesus was coming and what he was going to do so Satan introduced those stories into various cultures well before Jesus' arrival so that when people heard the Jesus story they wouldn't believe it because they would recognize it as an old story tehy had already heard. It's hard to argue with that logic ... well, wihout pointing fingers and snickering anyway.

Answer 4

i didn't see mithra there. i don't normally like cut and paste, but when i found this i had to include it.



The god Mithras (or Mithra) was a major influence on Christianity until the fourth century C.E. In this version of his story, by Barbara Walker, the parallels between the two cults are emphasized.



Mithra [was the] Persian savior, whose cult was the leading rival of Christianity in Rome, and more successful than Christianity for the first four centuries of the "Christian" era. In 307 A.D. the emperor officially designated Mithra "Protector of the Empire."



Christians copied many details of the Mithraic mystery-religion, explaining the resemblance later with their favorite argument, that the devil had anticipated the true faith by imitating it before Christ's birth. Some resemblances between Christianity and Mithraism were so close that even St. Augustine declared the priests of Mithra worshipped the same deity as he did.



Mithra was born on the 25th of December, called "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun," which was finally taken over by Christians in the 4th century A.D. as the birthday of Christ. Some said Mithra sprang from an incestuous union between the sun god and his own mother, just as Jesus, who was God, was born of the Mother of God. Some claimed Mithra's mother was a mortal virgin. Others said Mithra had no mother, but was miraculously born of a female Rock, the petra genetrix, fertilized by the Heavenly Father's phallic lightning.



Mithra's birth was witnessed by shepherds and by Magi who brought gifts to his sacred birth-cave of the Rock. Mithra performed the usual assortment of miracles: raising the dead, healing the sick, making the blind see and the lame walk, casting out devils. As a Peter, son of the petra, he carried the keys of the kingdom of heaven. His triumph and ascension to heaven were celebrated at the spring equinox (Easter), when the sun rises toward its apogee.



Before returning to heaven, Mithra celebrated a Last Supper with his twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac. In mem-



Barbara Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets ( New York, 1983), pp. 663-65.

Answer 5

Buddha was never said to have been born of a virgin. I have no idea where you got that from, probably from some sect that isn't even noticed.



Anyways since you don't know the history of scriptures and just copy and paste from some random site on the internet. If you researched early Christian writings pre-Nicene you would understand that in the Hebrew Matthew gospel, which is said that the greek/gentile version came from that there WASN'T a birth narrative in that gospel. It started out like Mark gospel. The birth narrative is from pagan mystery religions. It conveys a esoteric truth - one that is allegorical and important in those mystery religions. Historically speaking, most don't deny that Jesus/Yeshua existed, but of course you can't read the bible as a history book.



You need to read up on the Ebonites and Nazarenes, they NEVER held that Yeshua/Jesus was born of a virgin and their scriptures were the first ones since they lived in Jerusalem, that was a later addition, afterall where does Paul ever even mention it? Their scriptures were completely different, it can be said that Yeshua/Jesus was born like any other man and that he was born of a virgin. The virgin however was what they referred to as the holy spirit, basically it was he was born from the dead, or became awakened to his true self. Regardless, there was no birth in the original scriptures.

Answer 6

It's curious that Isaiah uses a Hebrew word that translates as "young woman," and when the Scriptures were translated into Greek, the term "parthenos," which means "virgin" was used.

Answer 7

Yes, those are *imitations* of the Jesus story, despite that all of them were believed long before Jesus ever showed up :-)



One man's myth is another man's religion -- you go, girl.

Answer 8

Apparently being born of a virgin is the in "thing" in mythology. Floods are big, too

Answer 9

Jesus is the only Savior / God born to a virgin, and He is the only one who has risen from the dead too!



The devil is a great imitator - - - don't be fooled!

Answer 10

lol well he isn't a god but other than that, well said. I didn't realize there were so many.

Answer 11

Yes but those are all myths. You haven't been paying attention, have you?

Answer 12

all those are nothing but a mere cheap imitation of the wonderful story of Jesus the Christ.

Answer 13

Well done!