... God, does that mean he (i.e. the human Jesus) shared 50% of his "DNA" with God?
2007-02-26 07:17:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Paul calls Jesus the last Adam or the second man! This is because when Jesus was born he had to be human--no more no less. If he had been less his ransom wouldn't have paid for our sins.
Similarly, if he had been more it wouldn't have been permitted. That is why an angel couldn't pay and why the sinful offspring of Adam couldn't provide the ransom either!
When he got baptized by John, he also became spirit anointed by God. At that moment, a voice from heaven declared him to be God's son--spirit begotten son.
From that moment only could Jesus be said to be Christ and be said to be God's son.
(ASV) Matthew 3:16-17,"And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him;17and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
As you may understand from this explanation, Christ becoming God's son was a spiritual matter, a matter of being born again by spirit. It had nothing to do with his physical body or his DNA.
It should be noted though that Christ was a perfect human being. This was one reason why his birth had to be miraculous. An other reason exists beyond the scope of this question.
As far as God being anything like a human try to go to the HP http://www.bythebible.page.tl/ and look at the page 'God'
2007-02-26 23:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That sort of suggests that God has human DNA, which in turn implies that God is human, which (if you believe in God) is just not quite right. It's more reasonable to suppose that Jesus was created wholly by God out of arbitrary and unique DNA, or that 50% of his DNA was arbitrary and 50% was Mary's.
The metaphor of literal fatherhood can only be pushed so far. God doesn't seem to have come down from heaven and had physical relations with Mary. Presumably there was no insertion of a divine penis. It seems to follow that the circumstances of Jesus' conception might be more convoluted than the sort of God's sperm + Mary's egg = Jesus kind of equation you seem to be forming here.
2007-02-26 15:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by Drew 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If jesus was born of a virgin, then the only way in which this could happen is from some form of asexual reproduction. This is pretty rare for animals and not known to happen in humans, but if it did, it would be considered a miracle of God to people who had hardly a rudimentary understanding of science or biology.
2007-02-26 15:46:57 · answer #3 · answered by you do not exist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is not the literal Son of God. Father-Son terminology is familiar terrain in ancient cultures that reverenced anthropomorphic deities. Son is a metaphor for the close relationship that the Son has with the Father. The Father is also the vital source of the Son.
2007-02-26 15:27:34 · answer #4 · answered by sokrates 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus isn't the son of God. He was HUMAN and was born from a MAN and WOMAN human being like everyone else.
2007-02-26 15:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No Jesus was a haploid
2007-02-26 17:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if God created us ALL in his image maybe that means that we ALL share 100% with god
2007-02-26 15:22:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you're mormon, then yes. if you're christian, then no, b/c God doesn't have DNA, so it would be all from mary's line.
so did mary have a mutation in her genome? was she XXY instead of XX?
2007-02-27 04:54:52 · answer #8 · answered by Ting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know that God has DNA?
2007-02-26 19:07:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anpadh 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What cliff said.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-26 15:27:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋