"In order for Jesus to be truly human, he had to "inherit" a flesh component that carried the nature of his mother. In order to be divine, he had to "inherit" the divine nature of God the Father through the Holy Spirit. "This is exactltly what I was talking about. I had not even read his post when I had written mine. I guess great minds think alike.
The problem with the above quote is that it makes no sense at all. He had to inherit His Deity? If anything leads to the error of "mixing" God and man into a new thing it is this kind of thinking. Jesus is now half Mary and half God. So am I to believe God has a genetic makeup that when combined with Mary's you get a Jesus?
Jesus is Deity because His Person has always existed with the Father. He is human not merely because He was born of Mary but because God has chosen to "tabernacle" among us. He has become incarnate in the flesh. He doesn't need our DNA for God to make a new man.
It was the Holy Spirit that conceived Christ in Mary's womb. To say Jesus is half Mary is to be a philosopher (an illogical one at that) rather than to follow what the sacred text explicitly tells us.
BTW: My pastor has also repeated the assertion that sin is inherited through the male. Where this argument comes from is mere speculation as far as I can see. If this were so, could we say that if Adam had not sinned, he could have had children with Eve, and their children would not have inherited a sin nature? I realize that Adam is the Federal Head for all of humanity, but that not only has to do with being inherently sinful at conception in nature but also with the imputation of sin. Are we going to divide actual sin nature and Federal Headship Imputation?
I simply do not see that calling Mary Jesus' mother makes her anymore physically related to Jesus than calling Joseph His father. This is begging the question.
No comments:
Post a Comment