Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!TRIUMFER!COSMO From: COSMO@TRIUMFER Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: interesting point Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 01:26:00 GMT Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: Practical Christian Life Lines: 27 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Original_To: JNET%"christia@finhutc" >>I don't care one bit what His race/color was, as long as the genetically >>inert holanderic gene (the only chromasome guaranteed to be passed from >>father to son) came from David. >Let's not forget He got his genes from Mary, and not Joseph. :-) Good point; I'd forgotten about that. It used to bug me how Jesus could have been a male when He didn't have a human father, since you can only get the Y chromosome (aka the holanderic gene) from a male. I studied the antenicean period of church history in University (from a Christian) and therefore was aware that it wasn't until a couple hundred years A.D. that it became entrenched that 'virgin' meant 'no sex'. Also he said it was more or less presumed at the time that a couple could or would have sex between the time they were betrothed and the time they were married, but that the girl would be dealt with as though she were a girl who'd not had sex until the ceremony (sort of like how a lot of girls will wear white at a wedding even though... you know, it's for social order). However, I've learned to stop worrying about all that, and just leave it at 'God can do anything He wants'. David