Virgin birth

<p>Jesus as man -- the virgin birth was essential:</p>

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<div>A baby's blood comes from the father, not the mother.  That's why paternity tests work to establish paternity but not maternity.  It is not uncommon for a fetus to have a different blood type than the mother; but its blood will be identical to his father.</div>

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<div>Because and only because of his virgin origins, Jesus had genetics from Mary, but not from Joseph.  His blood and its genetic underpinnings/origins was a direct creation from God through the agency of the overshadowing Holy Spirit.</div>

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<div>Thus the blood He shed, representing the perfect life He led, was perfectly Divine.</div>

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<div>The body He inhabited, coming from Mary and her genetic pool, was human.</div>

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<div>Jesus was and is indeed, even physically, the "God-man".</div>

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