When Qui-Gon asks Shmi who Anakin’s father is, she replies, “There was no father. I carried him. I gave birth. I raised him. I can’t explain what happened.”
This is clearly a statement that makes Anakin’s birth a virgin one. Combine this with Qui-Gon’s eventual belief that he fulfills a prophecy on how Anakin is supposed to be some Savior.
Luke 1:26-38 records how the angel Gabriel visits Mary to announce that she will conceive and deliver the Savior.
Like Shmi, Mary was confused. But unlike Shmi, Mary asks how this will happen since she is a virgin (Luke 1:34). Gabriel answers her in Luke 1:35, explaining that it is because of God.
In verse 38, Mary gracefully accepts this announcement.
The virgin birth of Jesus fulfilled the prophecy from Isaiah 7:14 and Genesis 3:15.
The prophecy that Anakin would bring balance to the Force pales compared to God sending Jesus to redeem the world.
In John 3:17, we read, “God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.”
Anakin eventually grows up and falls into evil. Jesus “committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth” (1 Peter 2:22). In Hebrews 4:15, we are told that Jesus was “without sin.”
If we reject the virgin birth, we reject God and call Him a liar since Scripture is His revealed Word to us (2 Timothy 3:15-17).
Remember, the only true virgin birth occurred nearly 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem when Jesus Christ was born.
