VIRGIN BIRTH, The, S. A. Paine Gen. 3:15, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
Isa. 7:14, “Therefore he Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Matt. 1:23, “Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”
Gal. 4:4, “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.”
S.A. Paine: [In the following article Elder Paine was responding to the Campbellites, the self-styled Church of Christ.]
David, on inherent sin, says, “Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Psa. 51:5
But they say, that only proves that David’s parents were sinners. If so, then you tell us, “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?” Job 14:4.
I have had them try to impeach Job as a witness. They say if that be true then Jesus Christ was depraved, because he was born of a woman, hence came from the unclean. They forget or rather ignore the fact that God was his Father and that his mother, Mary, was divinely prepared and made a clean source from which the babe sprang. When the angel told Mary that she should “conceive and bring forth a son,” she replied and said, “How shall this be seeing I know not a man?” “And the angel answered and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore (notice, therefore, because of the power of the Highest), also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” Luke 1:35.
Any one, who wants to, can see how the conception and birth of Jesus differs from the common or regular process of generation. The power of the Highest is able to reverse any law of nature at his option. (S.A. Paine Writings of S.A. Paine pg 4)