WHY WAS THE VIRGIN BIRTH NECESSARY?

The scholars can think of at least five reasons why the virgin birth was absolutely necessary:

The doctrine of the virgin birth determines whether you have a natural or supernatural Jesus.

By the virgin birth, God kept Jesus from possessing a sin nature from Joseph (see 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22-24; Hebrews 4:15; 7:26)

The Old Testament makes clear that Jesus had to be both God and man as the Messiah (see Isaiah 7:14; 9:6). This could only fulfilled through the virgin birth.

Related to above, Jesus is our Kinsman-Redeemer. In Old Testament times the next of kin (one related by blood) always functioned as the kinsman-redeemer of a family member who needed redemption from jail. Jesus became related to us by blood so He could function as our Kinsman-Redeemer and rescue us from sin. This required the virgin birth.

The virgin birth was necessary in view of the prediction of Genesis 3:15 (Jesus was predicted to come from the “seed of the woman”).