God the Son, Mentor's Guide, MG10

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G O D T H E S O N

2. Its theological significance

a. The Holy Spirit’s working and God’s overshadowing power made Mary pregnant with Jesus: she had no sexual intimacy with any man who served as the seed giver of Jesus’ person .

b. The Holy Spirit was the active cause of Mary’s conception: no human male was involved in his unique conception .

c. Jesus shared human nature fully, and did not lack any human element that is found in all of us as human beings.

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d. Jesus was conceived in the womb of a woman, was nurtured through a human mother, and grew as other human beings in the context of human family and growth.

B. His Humanity: Christ was born of the Virgin Mary.

As he was born of Mary in the last days, so did he also proceed from God as the First-Begotten of every creature. ~ Irenaeus (c. 180,

1. The biblical evidence

E/W), 1.576. Ibid. p. 101.

a. Messiah’s birth in the Lukan account, Luke 2.4-7

b. The prophetic promise of a virgin giving birth to Messiah, Isa. 7.14

c. Mary’s pregnancy and birth of Jesus in Matthew, Matt. 1.25,