Why do Muslims believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, since they do not view him as divine?
A. Muslims believe whatever Allah and Prophet Muhammad taught of matters of belief. Muslims believe that Prophet Jesus was of a virgin birth because the Quran clearly states this. In fact, the Quran identifies the first miracle of Jesus as his defending the honor of his noble mother, Maryam (Mary), against understandable public accusations that could have devastated her reputation. He declared her chaste and his birth miraculous. The question conveys the impression that one must believe that Jesus was divine because he had a miraculous birth – he had no material father. What does this reasoning make of Adam who had neither father nor mother? How much more ‘divine’ would be the biblical character Melchisedek who was “Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life…”?
