Jesus' Virgin Birth; Fact or Fiction?

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Jesus' Virgin Birth; Fact or Fiction?

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The concept of a deity producing a semi-divine child with a mortal woman traces back to the Early Bronze Age during the 3rd millennium BCE (approximately 2500–2000 BCE) in the kingdoms and river civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt (Old Kingdom): The earliest explicit, surviving theological records of a god physically siring a human child appear in Egyptian royal ideology. Pharaohs were officially proclaimed to be the physical offspring of the supreme sun god (such as Ra or Amun) mating with the mortal queen. Texts carved on temple walls detail how the chief deity took the bodily form of the reigning human king to enter the palace chambers and conceive the future royal heir.

Sumer and Akkad (Mesopotamia): Concurrently, early Mesopotamian rulers began claiming divine parentage to legitimize their rule. Early Sumerian kings and later Akkadian rulers (such as Naram-Sin of Akkad in the 23rd century BCE) incorporated direct divine lineage into their official inscriptions, portraying themselves as offspring or direct creations of deities like Utu (the sun-god) or Enlil to elevate their status above ordinary mortals.

Is the Jesus Virgin Birth story a fact, or a Roman Catholic Creation to appease the pagans they were enlisting into Christianity?
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