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To: Forest Keeper; P-Marlowe; Agrarian; jo kus; annalex; Kolokotronis; FormerLib; The_Reader_David; ...
The Spirit added the equivalent of male human DNA to join with Mary's egg so that she "conceived"

So, then, Christ is a product of divine and human "genetics?" You are actually suggesting that Mary's DNA (halpoid ovum) genetically fused with the "genetic equivalent" of a divine male [?] DNA (divine "sperm," a "haploid") to produce a mixture of divine and human, a demigod!

2,901 posted on 12/23/2006 9:26:52 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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Ping to 2900.

-A8

2,902 posted on 12/23/2006 9:28:43 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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It's a good time for a little Chaucer:
Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti, surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti, natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem, Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore, sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

2,908 posted on 12/23/2006 10:07:32 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: kosta50
So, then, Christ is a product of divine and human "genetics?" You are actually suggesting that Mary's DNA (halpoid ovum) genetically fused with the "genetic equivalent" of a divine male [?] DNA (divine "sperm," a "haploid") to produce a mixture of divine and human, a demigod!

Brother, I am not even going to touch this conversation with a 10 foot pole!

Merry Christmas

2,922 posted on 12/24/2006 8:57:49 AM PST by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)
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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; P-Marlowe; Agrarian; jo kus; annalex; Kolokotronis; FormerLib

In as much as Christ assumed our nature completely, and in the fullness of time, we have come to understand that our nature includes carrying within our bodies instructions, encoded in DNA, for our physical makeup, plainly Christ's body, like unto ours, did so as well.

It seems fruitless to speculate how the action of the Holy Spirit accomplished the wonder not merely of a virgin giving birth, but a virgin giving birth to a son. Doubtless one of the wonders in the life to come will be having such matters cleared up to our amazement at God's cleverness in addition to His condescension.

A blessed and merry Christmas to all!


2,958 posted on 12/24/2006 4:56:32 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: kosta50; P-Marlowe; Agrarian; jo kus; annalex; Kolokotronis; FormerLib; The_Reader_David; ...
So, then, Christ is a product of divine and human "genetics?" You are actually suggesting that Mary's DNA (halpoid ovum) genetically fused with the "genetic equivalent" of a divine male [?] DNA (divine "sperm," a "haploid") to produce a mixture of divine and human, a demigod!

To some extent, yeah, that's what I'm suggesting. But without the fun part. :) As I said before, the only thing we are told in scriptures about His appearance is that it was nothing out of the ordinary. Therefore I conclude that the male DNA within Him did not make Him to "appear" to be a perfect male "specimen".

I've seen you mention this "demigod" thing a few times, but I don't think I get it. A demigod is not 100% God. No one is saying that. Christ was 100% God. God made Mary's DNA in the first place, so what difference does it make, for these purposes, whether He used Mary's DNA or if He just went into the lab and manufactured some other person's DNA, not related to Mary? OR, is your contention that the blood Jesus spilled was not human blood? Ah, is this it?


3,148 posted on 12/30/2006 7:39:09 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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