Subject: Male seed sinful, but not female ovum? |
Bible Note: Yo, Doc, In ordinary procreation a human spirit is created at the moment the body is conceived ("Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit." John 3:6), but the spirit of Jesus was never created. He has always existed at the right hand of the Father. Therefore, Christ must needs have been conceived of a virgin. He alone came down from heaven (John 3:13). At his incarnation he laid aside all his prerogatives of omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence to become the spirit of a man-child in one of the virgin's ova. The Roman church does have a doctrine called "the immaculate conception". They are talking about Mary herself being conceived immaculately, as her mother was supposed to have been cleansed in some way before conceiving Mary, thus making her fit to conceive the Christ when she grew up. As you say, this "Maryolatry" is totally outside of scripture, and it is therefore discredited as a biblical doctrine. All such ideas are superfluous, since they are creations of man, trying to doctrinally prevent Jesus from inheriting something that is not inherent in the first place, namely a fallen nature. We should be able to see that if a fallen nature were inheritable, then Jesus would have been disobedient as well. To restate, depravity is not imbedded in the nature of good and upright babies created in the image and likeness of the Father of spirits (Hebrews 12:9). Rather, all, except for the Lord Jesus Christ, sin and fall short of the glory of God in response to temptation and we thus incur a carnal nature just like the first two of us did, by experiencing disobedience. Come back? Restate |