Given the season I think it would be appropriate for me to combine my scientific and biblical knowledge to explain from my very own personal perspective the miracle of the Incarnation, when The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. (John 1:14). Some have theorized that the Holy Spirit some how impregnated one of Mary’s ova causing it to spring forth as the baby Jesus after a nine month period of gestation. That would have made Him 50% divine and 50% human; a demigod like those false gods worshiped by the Greeks and Romans of that time in history. The Scripture teaches us that He was 100% divine and 100% human at one and the same time. Had Jesus acquired 50% of His DNA from Mary He would not have been sinless; that is the reason for the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. But Romans 5:12 tells us that sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. Mary herself, in singing her "Magnificat" referred to God as her Savior and in essence admitted that she like all humans was a sinner. A sinless person does not need a Savior. The apostle Paul explained that Jesus, Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. (Philippians 2:6-7)
The first phase of “human likeness” is a stem cell that has acquired 50% of its DNA from the mother’s egg and 50% from the father’s sperm. At that singular stage of conception God provides that human with a soul. In the book of Hebrews we read these words attributed to Christ; Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. (Hebrews 10:5) His body would eventually replace all of the animal sacrifices offered up to that point in time. He was to be The Lamb of God whose sacrifice would take away the sin of all who received Him by faith as Lord and Savior.
Mary, while having a visitation from the angel Gabriel was told, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. The Holy Spirit later placed a fully DNA complimented stem cell (the smallest form of a human body) in the womb of Mary and the spirit of Christ entered that cell making Him both totally divine and human simultaneously. That event had been predicted in the 7th Century BC by the prophet Jeremiah who wrote The LORD will create a new thing on earth— the woman will protect the man.” (Jeremiah 31:22) The new thing was a highly unique way that this human being came to be. Never before had any human ever walked the earth that had come from a uniquely created stem cell. Adam was made from dust, Eve from a part of Adam and all other humans from the combination of eggs and sperm. The new thing was the stem cell that Jesus acknowledged was “prepared for me.” No physical tissue possessed in the body of Christ had come from his mother Mary. Jesus Christ is truly one of a kind. Utterly human and totally divine at one and the same time.
Finally we read in Galatians 4:4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law. The Greek word for born is ginomai and means “made from nothing” and the Greek word ek means “out of.” Thus we are told that the baby Jesus issued forth out of a woman having initially been made into a stem cell by God from nothing. That is my very own scientific and theological perspective concerning the miracle of the Incarnation and the bona fide reason for the season.
Merry Christmas to you all.
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