While creation myths are not literal explications they do serve to define an orientation of humanity in the world in terms of a birth story.
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Many modern scholars consider the birth stories as inventions by the Gospel writers, created to glorify Jesus and present his birth as the fulfillment of prophecy.
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Numerous versions of Karttikeya's birth story exist, many having a conception from only male input, although heterosexual sex or desire also plays a part.
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Hagner's own weighty commentary on Matthew thus accepts Bethlehem of Judea, though he recognizes the birth stories were not written as " strict history ."
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Morgan arranged and performed drums and percussion with Robin Pecknold and Morgan Henderson on the soundtrack for the documentary Birth Story : Ina May Gaskin & The Farm Wives in 2012.
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It has therefore been suggested that the etymology, and probably the whole birth story with it, has been displaced from Saul to Samuel in the course of compilation or transmission.
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But the Rev . Buckner Fanning, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, said the Virgin Birth story is an integral part of the story of Jesus'life, death and Resurrection.
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"What they're looking for is their birth story, " says LieberWilkins, " and every child has one, even if there was a surrogate ."
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He served as series producer for " Birth Stories " and " Love is Not Enough " and co-director of the CSA Award winning series " War Story ".
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That is actually an oversimplification, because in each of his various incarnations there is some variation in the birth stories, and Ganapatya consider Ganesha to be " svambhu " ( self-created ).
