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To: ReignOfError
> ...half of Jesus' genes came directly from God the Father, so there's no reason to believe he was the exact same hue as Mary.

Wow. I've never thought about the implications of God having DNA (genes, chromosomes) that would inter-operate correctly with human ones. Always sort of assumed that there was a more overall miracle there that didn't need to worry about such details.

God's DNA. That's gonna be my thought-problem for a little while tonight. Thanks!

154 posted on 10/25/2006 10:42:49 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
Here's some more food for thought:

Jesus was not a clone of Mary. He had a Y chromosome.
Where did that come from?

Was Mary impregnated with God's DNA?

That would answer some questions, but raise even more.

155 posted on 10/25/2006 11:00:48 PM PDT by wai-ming
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To: dayglored
Wow. I've never thought about the implications of God having DNA (genes, chromosomes) that would inter-operate correctly with human ones. Always sort of assumed that there was a more overall miracle there that didn't need to worry about such details.

God Himself doesn't have DNA per se, unless He wants to. But He would have to impart DNA to His Earth-bound son, to make him a functional human being. Jesus, at least as I was taught, is fully God and fully Man, with neither diminishing the other. So at least while he walked the Earth, breathing oxygen and such, he must have had 23 chromosome pairs like the rest of us.

In the present conversation, my point is this: most children look a little like their mother and a little like their father. The degrees vary. But if God, the creator of all, was one of the parents of Jesus, we could expect Jesus to look like everyone; African, Asian, European, Australian, Antarctican, or American. Which traits are emphasized in one movie or another are immaterial. To assume that God, or Jesus, looks like one of us is he very height of hubris.

172 posted on 10/26/2006 8:19:54 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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