Virgin Birth

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Do any of the Church Fathers or approved visionaries help us to understand the miracle of the birth of Jesus - that a human child can be born while the mother remains a virgin? I believe this teaching with all my heart, but I am curious to know if the Church has been given an idea of how this ocurred. Thanks in advance for your insights.
 
if we needed to know the details for our salvation it would have been revealed, as it was not, we don’t need to know, other than what the bible states and sacred tradition has taught without exception, the Messiah was born of a virgin and she remains a virgin throughout her earthly life and in eternity. There are reams of speculation that have never made it into defined doctrine. the best analogy is the resurrection itself, when Christ passes bodily from the sealed tomb, through walls and doors into the cenacle, and at will as he appears in different places on the same day.
 
Well, true, but there’s nothing stopping us from taking a nugget of traditional teaching and, while keeping in mind the rest of tradition, drawing it out over time into a deeper knowledge by following all means of logic given to us. But it’s not necessary for salvation, not at all. I guess that’s what they call theologoumena. Vary explanations of Sacred Tradition that aren’t dogma in and of themselves.

Scientifically we know that male chromosomes were needed according to the laws of nature. I would imagine that God worked a creative miracle, like that at the resurrection, to begin the process of mitosis in the egg and then affixed himself within body inseparably bound to the human soul. Or something, I have no clue about that part. Which makes his day of conception spiritually the eighth day in line with Genesis. Which is probably part of the reason why John makes allusion to Genesis in the beginning (pun intended) of his gospel.

I love it when I talk to people and accidentally teach myself something new!

Also, perhaps Adam’s side really does pass on the Original Sin. Jesus had no human father and was free of it, but IDK.
 
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[BIBLEDRB]Gen 1:2[/BIBLEDRB]

[BIBLEDRB]Luke 1:35[/BIBLEDRB]

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The Protoevangelium of James
Infancy Gospel of James
The Protoevangelium of James
Mary: Ever Virgin (Fathers)
It seems to me the focus of the OP is this:
John655 :…he miracle of the birth of Jesus - that a human child can be born while the mother remains a virgin?

Are you asking if birth cancels a woman’s virginity?

A woman does not lose her virginity by giving birth, but by sexual intercourse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Luke 1:34 And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man?
It should be obvious that Mary knew where babies came from, yet she conversed with the angel who explained how she would conceive.
 
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