A: Yes, we do.

The miracle of the virgin birth would seem utterly incredible considered alone. But the natural happenings in the narrative make it seem quite real. Mary may have left Nazareth to keep down the talk of the village busybodies (Luke 1:39). She marries Joseph only after his fears of Mary’s infidelity have been allayed by an angel of the Lord (Matthew 1:18-25). Inspired by her estate as “highly favored among women” (Luke 1:42), she sings the Magnificat, whose captivating poetry would have been beyond a peasant girl such as herself. Some have said the virgin birth was a fabrication of the evangelists, who thought that including the event would serve as a slur on sex in behalf of the puritanical, primitive Christian ethic. But C.S. Lewis has answered the charge classically in saying that the virgin birth is no more a slur on the sexuality of the day than the feeding of the five thousand was a slur on the bakeries of that day.