Luke writes
that Jesus was born of the fruit of David's genitals (Act 2.30):
Not exactly
Bill "David being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an
oath to him,
that of the
fruit of his loins, according to
the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne."
Right, so
in Matt we have a genealogy that shows Joseph is in David's lineage
but he is
hardly the
biological father of Jesus is he? Even though Jesus is born in
his lineage.
hence he was not some kind of new humanity, freshly
brewed with new material, unrelated to fallen humankind;
No, he is
human like David was human, born on our side of the
fall.
He did not
come to this earth through procreation Bill. He did not have a human
father - He may have been
born on this side of the fall but he was most definitely not
born fallen. One can not be fallen and holy ATST
And to the naysayers Jesus said, "Before Abraham
was, I AM"; hence Jesus pre-dated even Abraham, David' predecessor.
But it was not his humanity which pre-dated David; it was his
divinity. And notice: he did not say that his Father was the I
AM, and that he was copying him. No, Jesus said that he (and
this before his glorification) is I AM; that
is, Yahweh, the LORD who covenants with
Abraham.
So?? Noone here disputes his
heritage.
Jesus is FULLY GOD and fully man,
two realities in one person, united -- but make
him anything less than God or anything more than man
and you are courting a demon, who is powerless to save
you.
Either that or you are courting
religious spirits who are filling your head with the doctrines they
have been promoting for thousands
of years. He doesn't have to be fully anything. He is who the
Word of God
says He is - which is the Word made
flesh.
Bill