[Mrs. Don-o]

"All of Jesus body was prepared entirely by God alone as the source, Mary not participating, according to this passage."

I'm sure that if you look at the passage again, you will notice that it de not say anything about God preparing Christ's body "alone." In the sense of the initial Creation, God "alone" made "everything" --- ot just the body of Christ, but yours and mine as well --- .but in the sense of human generation, God's creativity works through true human parenthood.

If He had separately created Christ to be not part of the human race, the human family tree, then Christ would not have been the Son of David, the Son of Abraham, the Son of Man, and the whole architecture of redemption falls apart.

This is very similar to the Muslim doctrine on Isa ibn Maryam (Jesus Son of Mary) whom they recognize only as a great man but strictly a creature, cfreatred my God in Mary's womb just as He created Adam. Before this thread, I had never heard a self-identified Christian espouse this.

(I am assuming you call yourself a Christian. If not, then forgive my error and just ignore the above.)

Frankly, I'm through with this discussion. The drive to make Mary not even the mother of Jesus, renders a major portion of the OT pointless, and is in its inescapable logical corollaries both anti-Semitic (making Jesus a non-Jew and removing Him from the children of Israel) as well as anti-human removing Him from the children of men.

We're done. Finis. God bless you.

[MHGinTN]

Gone out and gotten a new source for old straw? And you don’t even believe you’re tossing out insults when you insult someone by inferring they are espousing muslim doctrine. Haha! Wadda piece of work.

[imardmd1]

I'm sure that if you look at the passage again, you will notice that it de not say anything about God preparing Christ's body "alone."

It specifically did not mention anyone else. Mary could not help, She could only submit. Nowhere does the Bible say that any part of Jesus' flesh came from Mary. /the passage does not say "Thou and Mary prepared a body for me." God sure didn't need a woman's help to create Adam out of the elements present on the earth. Your answers are becoming irritating in their obfuscation, so pretty soon, I'm just going to ignore them and go take a nap. I do have several people whom I can teach that use their own noodle to think things through satisfactorily without oppositional motives..