Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 83
Crucifixion 83 days and nights? Was God the Father of the man Jesus as or the Son Jesus as ? This question has to be settled once and for all to give us a clear picture. Was the body of Jesus as , partially a body of God and partially a body of man? The concept of God which we have been granted by the study of both the Old Testament and the New Testament is that of an incorporeal infinite being, with matter having played no role in the making of His person. Having understood this much, let us look back at Jesus as as he was going through different stages of development as an embryo in the womb of Mary as. All the matter which went into the making of Jesus as has to be contributed by the human mother with not even an iota of it being supplied by God the Father. Of course God could have created him miracu- lously. But from my point of view, creation, whether it appears to be, miraculous or natural, is still creation. We can only accept someone to be the father of a son if the substance of the father and the substance of the mother are both shared equally or partially so that at least some of the substance of the body of the child is derived from the substance of the father. From this it should become very clear to the reader that God did not play any fatherly role at all in the birth process of the human embryo and the entire corporeal body with all its cardiac, respiratory, alimentary, portal, cellular and central nervous systems was the unaided product of the human mother alone. Where is the element of sonship in Jesus as who was merely a receptacle for the soul of God and no more? This new understanding of the relationship between God and Jesus as can be sensibly described as anything but a father-son relationship.