Jesus fulfilled 1000 predictions in His birth, life and death. These set the scene for the problem of sin and the solution.
To review the predictions, a start is: http://www.shalach.org/PropheciesTable/prophecieslst1.htm
Some key items include:
1. Eve was promised her 'seed' was to fix the problem. This is in stark contrast to how the Bible speaks of Adam's seed (it would only bring sin & death). How would a woman's seed be born without Adam's seed? That would take a virgin birth!
2. The deliver would be a descendant of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob
3. He will be God's equal
4. The deliver was to born at a specific time (after Persia's command to rebuild the Temple), place (Bethlehem), specific task (free captives of sin)
5. Born of a virgin - this was the most telling sign.
Now the most revealing thing about sin is seen in messiah (Jesus). He didn't have sin, but His mother was Mary and descendant of King David, a decendant of Adam. How can a woman of sin (she called God her saviour in Mary's Song) give birth to a child without sin?
A child is normally born from the seed of a man. Jesus was not.
Children born of man are all said to have sin. Jesus did not.
The bible repeatedly says that Adam sinned, Eve was decieved. Why a distinction?
I suggest this means that the seed of Adam and his sons is the passage of sin, the woman normally a daughter of a man is subject to sin, is not the 'source' of sin for her child, the man is. God being the Father of Jesus means that he is from Eve's seed, but His Father is who determines his sinless status not the woman. (Here solves the roman confusion on Mary).
The Father is the source of a sinless son, Jesus being by nature God in flesh.
When we have Gods spirit in us we become adopted sons, still with Adam's sin, but adopted as His own, we are to identify FULLY with our new Father, and call no MAN father! (bye bye another roman teaching). This is the realm of being born again. Again, you fully identify with your new life giving, rescuing, saviour, redeemer, owner, master but you call him Dad...your earthly father only gave you a sin nature,. If a Roman Centurion adopted you, you don't call your old father Dad, your old life, customs are gone, you are whatever your new father is.
Sin is from 'man' because he is the one 'responsible' for sin. ..from Adam we are sinners.
People are usually concerned that Adam and Eve disobeyed, and that was sin. I suggest the fruit they ate made them be able to mix good and evil up, but the pattern is: Eve was deceived by the serpent, She misled Adam, and Adam's act was not from deception, but was the direct disobedience of God. His act was the critical one for the subject of sin and all who are his desendants are likewise stained as sinners too, male and female, but it is the father who determines if the child is a sinner. Mary was a sinner because her father was a man from Adam. Jesus was NOT a sinner because HIS FATHER was GOD HIMSELF. This makes a universe of difference.
I think a cloned female cell should it result in a new human, it will be a sinner, as the original human father still there. A sinless child only results when an earthly father is out of the equation.
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