Footnote 2 – Can Scholars Take the Virgin Birth Seriously?

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (New Rochelle, NY: Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925), p. 9. Paine, like many of the American founding fathers, was a deist, which means he believed that God was revealed in nature (general revelation), but not in any historically or geographically conditioned scriptures (special revelation).