How else could Christ become the Son of God? Moorad
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From: "Jonathan Clarke" <jdac@alphalink.com.au>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:03 AM
Subject: Virgin Birth
> Time for something completely different.
>
> My understanding, without background references is that the traditional
> justification for the virgin birth was that it was how Christ obtained a
> sinless nature. My suspicion is this related to ancient ideas on how
> conception occurred, that the man planted the seed in the woman who
> essentially provided the a suitable host. This idea of conception seems
> to have survived into the early microscope era, I recall seeing early
> drawings of sperm where people thought they could see homunculi in the
> sperm. Thus with the virgin birth, God provided the seed and mary was
> simply the cooperative recipient. Am I correct in this, or right off
> base?
>
> Now I take the Virgin Birth as a "given". In that case, in the light of
> the modern understanding of what happens at conception, how do we
> understand it, and more importantly, what is the theolological
> justification?
>
> Jon
>
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