Not Mary's egg? Puh-leeze. I'm still waiting for someone from the non-Catholic side to take that one on. There is no biblical evidence to support such a claim.
I could give you all kinds of A/P data on why this wouldn't work but with God anything is possible.
Huh? What is A/P? And which view "wouldn't work?"
I guess if he figured we needed to know how he did it, he would have told us. Why is this so important? Either way is fine with me It's the results that count, right?
What is "the result?" As I have striven to show over the past week, the orthodox Christian position is that Jesus is truly the Son of Mary. Truly her Son, not just one who used her womb.
Why does this matter?
Well, for one, if something like Jesus not being related to Mary at all is believed, it goes a long way towards explaing the standoffishness many Protestants have towards Mary. If she was just a womb-for-hire and a nanny, there is no need for her to be anything special.
But the real point is that we believe that God, in his effort to rehabilitate man took on humanity. That He took on the exact same humanity that all of us share as desecndents of Adam and Eve. He took this fallen line of humanity and united it to Himself so that we could all be likewise lifted up and united to God.
If God instead took a new, totally unrelated to Adam, strain of humanity on as His form when He became Incarnate, that is nice. But it does not provide an avenue for the present humans to become lifted up.
In short, as I have said many times, if our humanity is not assuemd by God, then our humanity is not redeemed by God.
We believe God takes our humanity, our failed experiment, and glorifies it. We don't believe he considers the race of Adam to be a dead end, requiring an entirely new batch of humanity.
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And which view "wouldn't work?"
Man's. Our knowledge as of today is that the female egg is X chromosone. The male sperm are Ys and Xs. xx=girl xy=boy. If only tissue of Mary were replicated then wouldn't she have birthed a daughter? But, it didn't happen this way. Why? Caz we aren't as smart as we think we are? Caz with God all things are possible?
What is "the result?"
Jesus! :')
Well, for one, if something like Jesus not being related to Mary at all is believed, it goes a long way towards explaing the standoffishness many Protestants have towards Mary. If she was just a womb-for-hire and a nanny, there is no need for her to be anything special.
Either way works for me. Mary still did something very special. Whether God made His body from Mary and placed His spirit there or made a different body as He did with Adam, or accomplished this miracle in any other way, doesn't make any difference to me. His will suits me just fine :')