Minister Insists That Mary Was Not A Virgin When She Gave Birth To Jesus: ‘Biologically that is an Impossibility’
Caleb J. Lines, Senior Minister of University Christian Church, whose church is part of the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination, might hate Jesus more than anyone we know.
Months after preaching a sermon where he claimed Jesus was xenophobic and misogynistic and needed to be corrected and called out by the Canaanite woman, he the preached a Christmas/Advent sermon where he argued that Mary, Jesus’ mother, was pro-choice, using the story of her saying ‘yes’ to the angel Gabriel as an example of her strong stance on reproductive rights and the freedom to have said ‘no.’
Not one to let the celebration of the birth of Christ pass without getting even more shots in, Lines preached a sermon insisting that Mary was NOT a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus, saying, “We know biologically that that is an impossibility, of course in the 21st century.”
He followed it up by arguing that there were lots of stories about pagan gods having fantastical births, and this was just one more of many.
They knew full well that it was biologically impossible in the first century too. That’s the whole point!
Rising from the dead is also a “biological impossibility”. And scripture is clear that one cannot be born again Christian while rejecting that Jesus rose from the dead. Every miraculous and supernatural work of God is a “scientific impossibility” of some sort, including Creation. Though it’s a lot more probable and reasonable than the stupid notion that all that is biological magically appeared as a result of lightening striking a mud puddle. Talk about a “biological impossibility” …
He should be told how its physically impossible for him to impregnate or get pregnant by his boyfriend so he needs to stop being gay.