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>Although Biblical scholars more often than not take the church father's word that it was the Ebionites or the Cerinthians, or in the case of Luke the Marcionites, who cut out the genealogy and the virgin birth narratives to suit their own theologies, the narrative conflict between the defense of the Jesus' memzer status and the Virgin Birth narrative permits a more Deconstructionist perspective. The Gospel of Matthew has many Jewish elements in it so it makes sense that it would have an origin in Jewish Jesus sects. Following this timetable, we can conclude that the accusation of memzer came first, that it was at first defended as true but irrelevant by the Cerinthians, and that finally it was denied and mythologized as a Virgin Birth by what might have been the first Proto-Orthodox church
