We do not know the mechanism of God's Incantation. We are only told that Christ used Mary's flesh to take on human nature. Incarnation is God's miracle, an enigma not ours to decipher by logic and science, not a "natural" phenomenon for sure.
The Protestant side further rationalizes that a haploid egg (ovum) could be made viable by some sort of "divine genetics" (providing the necessary genetic material for Christ's with a Y-chromosome [whose?????]), thus suggesting a demigod zygotic fusion, or that somehow a haploid cell can be viable with half the number of chromosomes, thus leading to even greater fantasy.
The suggestion that the Son of God became Incarnate by "natural" means, that Mary's conception and pregnancy, were the "usual" procreative events, and "deduce" that our Lord's Birth had to be "normal" is unknown in the 2,000 years of Christianity.
What I'm looking for here is not a genetic or embryological explanation for Christ's Incarnation, which was miraculous and beyond comprehension. But --- I'm just musing about that "seed of a woman" part.
I read an Orthodox book called "Mary, the Untrodden Threshhold" (or "Portal"?) (sorry, I can't seem to find it now, cluttered house~) which said that from all the generations from Adam & Eve to Joachim and Anna, God was preparing "pure seed" for the coming of the Messiah. Gregory Palamas says something like that, too.
I'm not forming any conclusions here. I'm just musing about what it means. "Pure seed." "The seed of the woman."
You guys got any Isaac-the-Syrian type poetry on this?
And a Merry Christmas to all!
Well thanks a lot for the ping when you directly quote and refer to me, and call me unscriptural. I am hurt Kosta. :)
You tell us that you do not know the mechanism. You have been showed many scriptures that tend to support our position. I have not seen any, to this point, arguing against our position from scripture. If you have not already done so, could you show me those?