[P-Marlowe]

You seem to be taking issue with the claim that Christ assumed flesh...

Indeed I do.

as·sumed (-smd)

adj.

1. Taken up or used so as to deceive; pretended: an assumed name.

2. Taken for granted; supposed: an assumed increase in population.

Abandon ship!

[adiaireton8]

Your dictionary is incomplete. There are older senses of the term, rooted in the Latin etymology of ad-sumere, to "take on", "put on", to "take upon oneself".

-A8