The Messiah..born of a virgin...

[Rose of Shushan]

Quote:Abraham and Sarah must have experienced a sort of renewal after being in the Lord's presence. However, they still conceived a child naturally.

I think the "youthful restoration" they experienced is comparative to how Moses remained healthy and youthful until his death, Deut 34:7 "And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." (KJV)

Your definition of naturally has to allow for the fact that Sarah ,being 90, would have ceased having periods long ago and her ovaries were just not releasing eggs to be available for fertilisation.
Her womb also would not have been in a state to sustain a pregnancy.Therefore I wonder how natural a conception in those circumstances would be without God intervening in "the laws of nature" in that particular case..

Then we also have the following



Gen 20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
Gen 20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

It seems that God also played around with the "laws of nature" there by stopping up all those wombs ,wouldn't you say ?