Posted on 12/21/2016 9:57:37 AM PST by Salvation
Christ Born of a Woman ping.
Monsignor Pope Ping!
No mention of the prophecy in Isaiah 7:14, the fulfillment thereof written in Matthew 1:23?
Because it would have been really weird to have him born of a man?
Or the prophecy of Genesis 3.15
Not to mention, the miracle is that the Messiah was to be born of a virgin woman. It was specifically meant to be a sign from God.
5 Replies. It took that many to come up with the obvious answer.
Because that’s where babies come from.
Sorry to be such a smart alec, but I just couldn’t resist.
In that era they knew better.
It was going to be my answer if you hadn’t posted it.
That and the promise that Jesus would come from the line of David, a branch of Jesse, and therefore be the proper lineage for the Messiah.
Isaiah 11:1
Jesus is the Branch:
Zechariah 3:8
Zechariah 6:12
I always thought it fitting that the solution to sin would come from a source of sin’s origination. Eve was first to bite the apple, Christ came with the final solution to sin propagated through man.
The reason why Christ had no earthly father is thus.
There are two types of sin, original and natural. Original sin is the sin that is imputed to us through Adams sin. Because Adam sinned we all bear his sin, and that sin is imputed to us through our earthly fathers. Natural sin is that which we give to ourselves by not being holy and by violating Gods holiness, sins such as lust, theft, etc.
So, just by being born, we are sinners; assuming we had an earthly father.
Jesus, in order to be the perfect sacrifice for your sins, had to be perfect; no original sin or natural sin. For Jesus to have no original sin, he had to be born with having an earthly father, “the Holy Spirit descended upon Mary.”
For the reason Jesus had to be born at all is thus.
Jesus had to be fully man and fully God in order to satisfy the demand for the perfect sacrifice. In order to fully man He had to be born.
“he had to be born with having an earthly father, “
WITHOUT not With
Because he had to be fully human.
Whew... Read the title incorrectly the first time as “Was Christ born a Woman?” (Laughing at self)
Christ needed to be born of a woman as He had to lower Himself to our level to become our Savior. In my humble opinion, Christs greatest sacrifice was not dying on the cross, but lowering Himself to our level to help us... (and we are still slow learners even with such a great teacher)
So yes, Christ was born of a woman as that was the required entry into a human body to help us.
There is another question I have. Was the body prepared for Jesus to enter or did He enter at conception. My thoughts are at conception as His Father in Heaven created the zygote for Jesus to enter the physical body.
I know that life begins at conception as if a new soul were not present, the zygote would not form. Just as the physical body is dead when the soul departs.
Some people would say that I think way too much. However, I remember my own life prior to birth and it doesn’t fit what I understand per above.
God could have made a physical body for Jesus just as He made man... However, that was not His plan according to the Old Testament which were His earlier words.
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