The Holy Spirit had to add DNA to Jesus body for the incarnation or He would have been a girl. Mary has no x chromosome to give anyone. To say Jesus took on Mary’s flesh is not accurate. The genetic make up of Jesus human body is not important and frankly out of bounds to speculate on as far as I’m concerned. The important fact is while fully God He also became fully Human.
Right on MomMD.
God tells us what He wants us to know and what we need to know to be thoroughly equipped for every good work, and life and godliness.
Honestly, there’s enough in the Scripture we’ve been given to keep us busy in growing in Christlikeness and ministering to others to keep someone busy for a dozen lifetimes without getting into idle speculations about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (or the immaculate conception, or other Marian nonsense)
When God shows someone some error in their life (*cough* call no man father *cough*) that they need to deal with and a person refuses to go there, then God is not going to give any more revelation.
If a person won’t obey what’s been already revealed, then there’s no point in giving more for them to disobey.
And that may be an act of mercy on God’s part as then they have less to be accountable for when at the Bema Seat for believers, or the Judgment for unbelievers.
In many ways, Mary is the equivalent of a surrogate mother. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit “overshadowed” Mary for her to conceive. This statement has many possibilities, including giving birth to a child with none of her genes.
So, the classic Greek word Theotokos is more accurate, as it mean God-bearer. It doesn’t necessarily mean that God originated from Mary, just as a surrogate mother is not the origin of the baby she births.
*y* chromosome, but that aside, you are correct that if Jesus was made from Mary's flesh, He would have, of necessity, been a girl.
I'd be more careful in stating what God had to do in this case.
(I can't figure out just WHERE the HS would even GET any male DNA from.)