On the subject of Hell and Salvation

[GrandizerII]

Virgin Birth:

" It is a fact that divine births were so commonly accepted among ancient people that whenever they hear of one who has greatly distinguish himself, they immediately classify such a person as having been born of a supernatural lineage. The learned Thomas Maurice in his book called Indian Antiquities, goes far as to state that “in every age and in almost every religion of the Asiatic world, there seems uniformly to have flourished an immemorial tradition that one god had from all eternity begotten another god”It is a fact that divine births were so commonly accepted among ancient people that whenever they hear of one who has greatly distinguish himself, they immediately classify such a person as having been born of a supernatural lineage. The learned Thomas Maurice in his book called Indian Antiquities, goes far as to state that “in every age and in almost every religion of the Asiatic world, there seems uniformly to have flourished an immemorial tradition that one god had from all eternity begotten another god”

https://www.nairaland.com/193520/there-m...gin-births

To be fair, the virgin birth bit seems to be unique to Christianity (or at least not directly borrowed from prior myths). What is pagan (and seen in other myths) about the supposed birth of Jesus is the idea that a mortal woman is able to give birth to a being of divinity (see, for example, the mortal Semele giving birth to the god Dionysus according to Greek mythology).

The virgin birth idea in the Christian myth perhaps may have come about because Christians would not have liked the thought of their sacred Son of God being the product of filthy human sex.