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There are also odds that the earth is flat. But the facts about Jesus's lifetime are quite extraordinary, it's not hinging on the virgin birth.
Joseph had a vision that Jesus was conceived of a virgin. Hymen tests would have been a thing then so he could have possibly proved it.
Jesus performed miracles which were witnessed by many
Jesus claimed to be God and the person of the prophecies
Jesus was crucified, dead and buried
After three days the tomb He was buried in was empty, stone rolled away, guards had no idea what happened
He was seen around after His resurrection by many people
Many of those people that saw Him including 11/12 (new) disciples died on that fact, refusing to refute it
Jesus fulfilled many prophecies
Personally I find the likelihood of this being true so high and so reliable compared to other religions/belief systems including atheism or agnosticism, that I choose to follow it.
After this, you switched contexts btw, talking about Christianity as a whole, rather than the singular point of whether Jesus was born from a "virgin" vs. "maiden". However, Christianity is not all one unified things - we know that it is good & pure & true when it does things like take care of widows & orphans, feeds the homeless, visits the sick & in prison, etc.; but we also know that "Christianity" is false if it includes things like priests having the right to sexually abuse little children. Also in the USA, many people are equating "being Christian" with "voting Republican, no matter who the nominee is (and what crimes they may have already committed)". These behaviors persist despite verses such as Deuteronomy 4:2 and Revelation 22:18-19 that say explicitly never to add anything.
Rather, the Bible literally commands us to "Test everything against what we know to be true" (1 Thessalonians 5:21), and Matt. 24 gives explicit warnings against people trying to add all manner of falsehoods, etc.
So, not knowing any of Greek, Aramaic, the Jewish language and especially that of the ancient Semites, I cannot really "test" whether the Bible says that Jesus was a virgin. And seeing all the other ways that others are misusing the scriptures to mean whatever they want it to, I am skeptical. God is pure power incarnate and would not be diminished in the least if He chose to be born to a non-virgin, imho, but I could see how others who place more value on human superstitions than whatever may have actually happened could see things differently. Which, aside from my laziness to dig deeper into finding the real truth of the matter, is what keeps me stuck in my doubt. And anyway, as we both said, it doesn't really seem to matter either way:-).
I think the reason why a virgin was chosen was to show it was without a doubt not the son of any human man but literally conceived by God. Although I think they kept it under wraps and most thought He was Joseph's son.