Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 3
The Sonship of Jesus Christ 3 possibility which can be scientifically considered is that Mary’s as unfertilized ovum provided the 23 chromosomes as the mother’s share in the forming of the embryo. That being so, the question would arise as to how the ovum was fertilized and where the remaining 23 essential chromosomes came from? It is impossible to suggest that Jesus’ as cells had only 23 chromosomes. No normal human child can be born alive with even 45 chromosomes. Even if a human being was deprived of a single chromosome out of the 46 necessary for the making of normal human being, the result would be something chaotic, if anything at all. Scientifically, Mary as could not provide the 46 chromosomes alone; 23 had to come from somewhere else. If God is the father then that presents several options. One, God also has the same chromosomes that humans have, in which case these must have been transferred somehow to the uterus of Mary as. That is unbelievable and unacceptable; if God has the chromosomes of human beings He no longer remains God. So as a consequence of belief in Jesus as as the literal ‘Son’ of God, even the divinity of the Father is jeopardised. The second possibility is that God created the extra chromo- somes as a supernatural phenomenon of creation. In other words, they did not actually belong to the person of God, but were created miraculously. This would automatically lead us to reject Jesus’ as relationship to God as one of child to father, and would result in the all-embracing relationship of the Universe to God, that is, the relationship of every created being to its Creator.