Featured Luke 1:35 And The Real Human Nature of Jesus Christ

LOL, of course Jesus descended from Mary and Mary from the line of Abraham, that is why her DNA made up part of His DNA fulfilling the "seed" of Abraham prophecy.

My use of consubstantial was to explain the word's meaning, because the big word appeared in the OP.

 

The orthodox view is Jesus is 100% human and 100% God, together in the hypostatic union. So if by "nature" you include his physical essence (His human essence) you are in bounds.

 

Matthew 1:16, ". . . And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. . . ." And is not at issue. Nor is Galatians 4:4. Again, the only purpose that reading in Luke 1:35 to serve is to say Mary was told of this too by the Angel. That reading to be in Luke is not needed.

 

Hebrews 2 gives clarity to the humanness of Jesus. In Hebrews we see Jesus as fully God and fully man.

Hebrews 2:9-18
What we do see is Jesus, who was given a position “a little lower than the angels”; and because he suffered death for us, he is now “crowned with glory and honor.” Yes, by God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone. God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation. So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. For he said to God, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among your assembled people.” He also said, “I will put my trust in him,” that is, “I and the children God has given me.” Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying. We also know that the Son did not come to help angels; he came to help the descendants of Abraham. Therefore, it was necessary for him to be made in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. Then he could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people. Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.

 

Both Genesis 3:15 and Galatians 4:4 explicitly teach Jesus has a true human nature. And we know He is sinless, Luke 19:18. Therefore the only necessity of the reading that was added in Luke 1:35 is to claim the angel told Mary of this.

 

The evidence does not prove it was in Luke originally. Most manuscripts do not have the reading. And it is not a necessary reading in order to prove Jesus was fully human. Genesis 3:15 and Galatians 4:4 are examples as to why this is so. So the only necessity, if any, is to claim Mary was told of this by the angel. Why would that be important?

 

To a KJ-Onlyist.

 

sbg, you seem to want 1 century persons to understand 21st century medicine and science.
Paul tells us this:
1 Corinthians 15:21-23,45-49
So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.

The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit. What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later. Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man. Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man.

We see that Jesus is fully God and fully human. What we will not know is whether God used Mary's genome or whether God did what he did with the first Adam...created a human.
Since Jesus is identified as the second Adam, a human created with no sin nature, but capable of being tempted in all things like the 1st Adam, I have no problem with God not using Mary's genome, but instead creating a new genome for His Son to have. Either way, it takes nothing away from Jesus being fully God and fully man.

 

Sounds like you and Aaron are siblings, whatever you are selling is right, and any alternate view is wrong. Got it...

 

Only one reason. That reading was not original to Luke. Neither the Majority Text nor Critical Text textual criticism supports that reading. And the only other reason to believe it was original to Luke would be some necessity for Mary to have known it from the angel. What is it?