He says that he believes some of the things in the bible but not all the bible says. He says that he believes Jesus was a real person. But he doesn't believe that he was born from a virgin. I've explained to him that he had to be, so that he wouldn't inherit mankind's sin (being born from God). And then take all of mankind's sins and nail them to the cross with his body.
From a different perspective.Not a salvation issue.
Jesus as the Son of man in respect to his corrupted flesh, typified as sinful, aged in the process of dying and returning to the dust from where it was formed, was born of the virgin Mary. All believers as the bride of Christ are typified as chaste virgins, as the seed of Christ is formed in all who have been born again. He suffered the second death in our place; His body did not see corruption seeing it was changed in the twinkling of the eye into a new incorruptible body by the power of resurrection.(Not by his earthly birth)
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh, and
for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh: