Why I Can’t Be a Mormon #3: False Virgin Birth

The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. Mary was a virgin when she conceived Jesus and she was still a virgin when she gave birth. In Matthew 1:18 it is stated that Mary was with child “of the Holy Spirit.” This was a supernatural conception.

In Mormon teaching Mary was a virgin before God the Father, a glorified and deified physical man, had sexual relations with Mary to conceive Jesus. Therefore, she could not have been a virgin at Jesus’ birth. 

Although, the Latter-day Saint Book of Mormon states that Jesus was born of a virgin (I Nephi II:18), Mormon leaders have taught very clearly that:

Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost (Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 1, p. 18)

That God the Father (who Mormonism teaches is a man with a body of “flesh and bones,” Doctrine and Covenants 130:22) married the Virgin Mary (compare Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses or JOD, Vol. I 1, p. 268 with Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 158)

That the body of Jesus was produced exactly the same way your body was produced by normal husband and wife sexual relations (Joseph F. Smith, Family Home Evening Manual, pp. 125- 26, 1972; Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 516, 547; Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 159).

Mormon leaders have taught that there was nothing unnatural about the conception of Jesus Christ (Brigham Young, JOD, Vol. 8, p. 115; President Heber J. Grant, JOD, Vol. 8, p. 21 1; Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 742).

Mormons cannot claim to believe in the virgin birth while at the same time believing God the Father came down to Mary in a physical body to impregnate her. It is one or the other.

September 9, 2022 E-Letter

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