18/12/2024
This blog continues on from last year’s Christmas blog challenging the popular belief that Mary contributed 50% of Jesus’ DNA. Last year we looked at two compelling reasons why this could not be the case. If you want to read this blog to refresh yourself, https://anazao.com.au/december-2020/
This year we will present two more strong arguments against holding this belief. For those who find theological discussions like this stimulating, then you will definitely enjoy our updated and revised book, “Underestimating Satan,” available from Amazon worldwide as a paperback, or from our website store as an e book, https://anazao.com.au/store/Underestimating-Satan-e-book-p18060398
The hybrid problem
Philosophically, to be fully God necessarily means a completely unique conception without any human intervention. To be fully man simply requires God the Son to contain himself within a complete set of human chromosomes. Jesus was both fully the second member of the Trinity and fully man. Had Mary provided the o**m and the Holy Spirit supernaturally provided the s***m, then Jesus would have differed little from the Nephilim mentioned in Genesis chapter 6, when the ‘sons of God’ took flesh and had in*******se with the ‘daughters of men.’ With Satan’s angel-human hybrids, supernatural s***m fertilized human ova, producing offspring that were fully human but not fully angelic. Full Nephilim, like Og, king of Bashan, and partial Nephilim like Goliath, were fully human – although very large – despite Og’s direct and Goliath’s ancestral paternity being demonic. In like manner, Jesus would have been completely human but not completely God.
The last Adam problem
Jesus was not only the last Adam in that he spiritually succeeded where Adam failed, he is also the last or second Adam in that he was the only human, since Adam, to be entirely the direct creation of God. No human intervention.
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. (1 Cor 15:45-47)
These verses makes it very clear that every aspect of Jesus’ creation was spiritual. If he had arisen from the fertilization of Mary’s o**m, he would have been the same as Adam; a man of dust. This Last Adam is definitely all from heaven.
Yet still from the line of David
How could Jesus be of the line of David if there was no DNA from Mary? Although no genetic material was provided by Mary, observers would have noted that Jesus emerged from womb of a woman who comes from the line of David, hence there can be no dispute that he is from the line of David. From a biological perspective, there was no genetic connection, via human intervention, back to David. It is impossible to be fully God and humanly linked to David.
However, Jesus did look Jewish, rather than Arabic, African or Chinese. Unlike Adam, whose genetic makeup encompassed enormous variability in order to give rise to many different races, Jesus’ biological information was limited to a much narrower set of characteristics. It is highly likely that his chromosomal makeup would have been very similar to the makeup of either Mary or Joseph, complete with all the biological markers that linked him to David’s blood line. God would have made sure of that. If we had a sample of his parent’s blood and could do an accurate genome map, we would find it very similar to Jesus’ blood, even though there was no direct biological contribution from either his earthly father or mother. In a very real sense then, Jesus could still claim be to descended from the blood line of David (and therefore the seed of Eve) and he probably looked like his parents as well. The only difference is that Jesus’ DNA would have been perfect; free of any chromosomal mutations that would necessarily have affected his earthly parents, due to the accumulative effect of 4000 years of decay.
Next year, at Christmas, we will conclude this topic.