Virgin Birth

Biblical Unitarians affirm the virgin birth as a historical miracle and a theologically essential event. Mary conceived Jesus by the direct action of God's power (the Holy Spirit), without a human father. This miraculous origin is what makes Jesus the 'Son of God' — not merely metaphorically, but in a literal sense: God himself is the father of Jesus' existence.

For Biblical Unitarians, the virgin birth is particularly important because it explains how Jesus could be the Son of God without being a pre-existent divine person. The Father brought Jesus into being through an act of creative power in Mary's womb, producing a genuinely new human being with a unique relationship to God. The virgin birth is thus the point of origin for Jesus' divine sonship, not the incarnation of a pre-existing divine identity.

Denying the virgin birth would undermine the Biblical Unitarian Christology: if Jesus had a human father, the basis for calling him the Son of God in a special sense would be weakened. The virgin birth is therefore affirmed not only as historical fact but as theologically essential to understanding Jesus' unique identity within Biblical Unitarian theology.