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4 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction Is a Literal Son of God Possible? Evidently, therefore, literal sonship of God is impossible because a literal son must have half the chromosomes of his father and half the chromosomes of his mother. So another problem surfaces, the son would be half man and half god. But those who believe in literal sonship, claim and emphasise that Christ as was a perfect man and a perfect god. If the chromosomes were half the required number then we are not left with any problem, since no child would be born anyway. suppose it did happen, that child would only be half a man. Not to mention the missing twenty three full chromosomes, even a single defective gene within one chromosome can play havoc with a child born with such a congenital defect. He could be blind, limbless, deaf and dumb. The dangers attendant to such a mishap are unlimited. One should be realistic; it is impossible to conceive of God as possessing any chromosomes, human or otherwise. Therefore, with the personal physical contribution of God hav- ing been ruled out, if a son were born to Mary as with only the human character-bearing genes possessed by her ovum, whatever the outcome, he would certainly not be the ‘Son’ of God. At best you could describe that freak of nature as half a man and no more. If the reproductive organs of Mary as were like those of any other female and still the ovum were to fertilize somehow by itself, the maximum one can expect is the creation of something with only half the human characteristics. It would be abominable to call that something the ‘Son’ of God.