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I was taught in catechism that seeing as how Jesus Christ's mother was a
virgin when he was conceived, then he didn't have a human father. Well;
that all depends on how we go about defining "father".
● Gen 2:21a-22a . . So the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon the man; and,
while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that spot.
And the Lord God fashioned the rib that He had taken from the man into a
woman;
The Hebrew word for "rib" is tsela' (tsay-law') and Gen 2:21-22 contains the
only two places in the entire Old Testament where it's translated with an
English word representing a skeletal bone. In the other twenty-nine places,
it's translated "side" which is really how it should be translated because
according to Gen 2:23, the material taken from Adam's body included a
portion of his flesh, which is notable; here's why.
God constructed Adam's body from the Earth's dust, and then breathed into
it the breath of life (consciousness). He did neither of those two things with
Eve. Her body was constructed from Adam's body, and she got her breath of
life from his breath of life. In other words: human life is a transferrable kind
of life that can be, and is, passed on to succeeding generations.
The result is: none of us are discreet creations; everybody that biologically
descends from Adam is just simply more Adam; viz: reproductions, i.e. our
body is his body, and our breath of life is his breath of life. This is very
important in regards to Jesus Christ's human origin.
There are people, even a number of Christians, who desperately want to
biologically disconnect Jesus Christ from Adam; their case relies heavily
upon Jesus' virgin conception, which is a losing case seeing as how the flesh
and bone of Mary's parents biologically descended from Eve's flesh and
bone; and from thence Adam's flesh and bone; ergo: Mary's flesh and bone
were Adam's.
Opponents have even attempted to biologically disconnect Christ from Adam
by insisting that his conception was an implant, i.e. Mary was Jesus'
surrogate mother rather than his biological mother. But that idea is not only
a theory concocted right out of thin air and a fertile imagination, but it's also
spurious and unbiblical.
● Acts 13:22-23 . . "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine
own heart, which shall fulfill all my will." Of this man's seed hath God,
according to His promise, raised unto Israel a savior, Jesus.
● Rom 1:1-3 . . Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David
according to the flesh
The koiné Greek word for "seed" in those two passages is sperma (sper'
mah) which in males typically refers to their reproductive stuff and/or their
genetic material; especially when the seed is according to the flesh, i.e.
biological seed rather than spiritual seed.
Now, in order for Christ to descend from David's seed according to the flesh
sans Mary sleeping with a man, she had to be one of David's biological
granddaughters or else her child would not have been David's actual
progeny, and the angel's announcement would've been untrue.
● Luke 1:31 . .You will conceive in your womb and bear a son; the Lord God
will give him the throne of his father David.
I can think of no sensible argument that would successfully break Christ's
biological lineage to David, nor of one that would successfully break David's
biological lineage to Eve.
So then; unless somebody can prove-- clearly, conclusively, and without
ambiguity; air tight and iron clad-- that Jesus Christ's mother wasn't
biologically related to Eve; then it's a foregone conclusion that Adam was the
first in Jesus Christ's long line of biological male ancestors; the final one of
course being Mary's biological father.
NOTE: It's commonly objected that women cannot provide the Y
chromosome necessary for producing a male child. And that's right; they
usually can't. However, seeing as how God constructed an entire woman
from a sample of male flesh and bone; then I do not see how it would be
any more difficult for God to construct a dinky little Y chromosome from a
woman's flesh and bone.
And seeing as how every woman's flesh and bone descends from Adam's
flesh and bone, then any Y chromosome that God might construct from a
woman's flesh and bone would essentially be Adam's Y chromosome seeing
as how Eve's flesh and bone were Adam's to begin with.
Q: But doesn't 1Cor 15:45-47 say that Christ is a second Adam rather than
a reproduction of the first?
A: I'm going to deliberately misquote a portion of that passage so's to bring
out a point.
"And so it is written; "The first man Adam was made a living soul"; the last
Adam was made a life-giving man."
According to the actual language, the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit
rather than a life-giving man. When 1Cor 15:45-47 is considered along with
John 1:1-4, it becomes readily apparent that the last Adam was God prior to
becoming an h.sapiens.
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