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. FAQ: I have heard that ancestral blood is inherited via the father rather than the mother. Seeing as how Jesus didn't have a father, then how could he possibly inherit Adam's blood? A: In the beginning, God made the first woman with human material taken from the first man's body. (Gen...

. ● 1Pet 1:18-19 . .You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. FAQ: If human flesh has a will of its own, and it quite...

. ● Acts 2:29-30 . . Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He...

. FAQ: If it's true that Jesus Christ is Adam's biological progeny, then wouldn't he have been born with a "body of death" just like everybody else? (Rom 7:24) A: Yes, and in point of fact the Bible says that Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh rather than in the likeness of righteous...

. It's not all that difficult to show that Jesus Christ is Adam's biological progeny; which of course attests that he's a genuine h.sapiens rather than an imitation, i.e. a look-alike rather than the real thing; viz: a counterfeit. Yet according to John 8:29, 2Cor 5:21, Heb 4:15, and 1Pet 2:22...

. ● Jer 13:23a . . Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? The answer to both those questions is of course "no" because if an h.sapiens is born with black skin, it stays black; and if a cat is born with spotted fur, its stays spotted. In other words: the color of an...

. ● Matt 2:19-23 . . After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said: Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead. . . . So he got up, took the child and his mother and...

. ● Matt 2:11-12 . .Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. Those were not only appropriate tributes in that day, but also valuable commodities that Joseph could put to use in financing his family's pending sojourn in Egypt. (Matt...

. ● Matt 2:11b . . They saw the child with his mother When Jesus was lodged in the stable, the Greek word for his age is given as brephos (bref'-os): an infant. In the house, the word for his age is given as paidion (pahee-dee'-on) which refers to any underage kid from infancy to adolescence...

. ● Matt 2:3-4 . . And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he began to inquire of them where the Christ was to be born. The Greek word for "Christ" basically refers to anointing; which...

. ● Matt 2:1 . . Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. The Greek word for these particular wise men is from magos (mag'-os) from which we get the English word magician. But back then, the word...

. ● Luke 2:8. . . And in the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields, and keeping watch over their flock by night. To hear Jacob tell it; a shepherd's life would not be my career of choice. (Gen 31:38-40) ● Luke 2:9-11 . . And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before...

. ● Luke 2:6-7 . . While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. According to Mic 5:2, Bethlehem back then was a tiny community...

. ● Luke 2:1-2 . . In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) The historical accuracy of this particular census has been contested by some of the...

. FAQ: A king named Jeconiah is listed in Solomon's genealogy (Matt 1:11). He was a very bad king; so bad that God pronounced a curse on his posterity. If Jesus inherited David's throne from Solomon, then shouldn't he have also inherited Jeconiah's curse right along with it? A: Yes; because the...

. ● Luke 1:31-32 . . the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father. When Joseph adopted Jesus into Solomon's lineage, it gave the child a legal opportunity to inherit David's throne, but it did not give him a natural opportunity, viz: in order to fully qualify as a candidate for the...

. In the beginning; God created only one human being directly from the dust of the Earth. No other human being has ever come into existence that way. All succeeding human beings are descendants of that first one; including his own wife. Eve was formed from samples of already-existing...

. Mary's baby was on track as a miracle. ● Luke 1:34-35 . . How will this be-- Mary asked the angel --since I am a virgin? The angel answered: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. The angel also said: ● Luke 1:31-32 . .You are to give him the...

. ● Luke 1:30 . .You have found favor with God. The Greek word translated "favor" is charis (khar'-ece) a common word for "grace" which, in my estimation, is best understood as gracious; and can be defined as kind, courteous, inclined to good will, generous, charitable, merciful, altruistic...

. ● Luke 1:28 . .The angel went to her and said: Greetings, you who are highly favored! "highly favored" is translated from the Greek word charitoo (khar-ee-to'-o) which means to indue with special honor. It's a rare word that appears in only one other verse in the entire New Testament at Eph...