Do Mormons believe in the Virgin birth taught in the Bible? (LDS)
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According to Brigham Young, the second prophet and president of the LDS church:
> "The birth of the Savior was as natural as the births of
> our children; it was the result of **natural action.** He partook of flesh
> and blood--was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers."
>
> **(Journal of Discourses, vol. 8, p. 115).**
>
> "I have given you a few leading items upon this subject, but a great
> deal more remains to be told. Now, remember from this time forth, and
> for ever, that Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost."
> **(Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, p. 51).**
According to Orson Pratt the original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of the Latter Day Saints:
> The fleshly body of Jesus required a Mother as well as a Father.
> Therefore, the Father and Mother of Jesus, according to the flesh,
> must have been associated together in the capacity of Husband and
> Wife; hence the Virgin Mary must have been, for the time being, the
> lawful wife of God the Father: we use the term lawful Wife, because it
> would be blasphemous in the highest degree to say that He overshadowed
> her or begat the Savior unlawfully.
>
**(Orson Pratt, The Seer, page 158)**
According to Luke 1:26-28:
> 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.
>
32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The
> Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
>
> 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom
> will never end.”
>
> 34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
>
> 35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the
> power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born
> will be called[a] the Son of God.
>
> 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is
> going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be
> unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will
> ever fail.”
Since Brigham Young says Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost and Orson Pratt says Jesus required a mother and a father, does that mean the Virgin Birth spoken about in the Bible is refuted from an LDS perspective?
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