Miraculous Incarnation and Selective Breeding in the Bible Quiz

The Miraculous Nature of Christ's Incarnation

• The unique incarnation of Christ required a miraculous, supernatural conception, and any attempt to explain it naturalistically is futile and destructive.
• Christ's body had to be without physical blemish and spiritually holy to serve as a sacrificial offering, necessitating a special creation of the embryonic body in Mary's womb.
• All genetic inheritance, physical, mental, and spiritual, is transmitted equally from both parents, making it impossible for Christ to be born without blemish and sin-free if either parent contributed genes to His formation.
• From conception to death, Jesus experienced a fully normal human life but without sin, as He was both Son of man and Son of God.
• The Virgin Birth may have been biologically impossible, but it is defined as a miracle of creation, scientifically impossible yet happening anyway.
• Denying the requirement of the special creation of Christ's body due to genetic ties to Mary is trivial and inadequate appreciation of God's ability to create.
• Jesus was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, linking Him to the lineage of David, despite His body being specially formed in Mary's womb.
• Adam's body was also specially formed and had no human mother or father, yet he was fully human, the prototype man, and the father of all men.
• It is necessary and appropriate that Christ's body, like that of the first Adam, should be directly formed by God to be truly human without sin.
• A special miracle would have to be performed by God on Mary's genetic apparatus to purge the sin-factor and defective mutations, amounting to a special creation of the body in Mary's womb.
• Christ's unique incarnation is a mighty miracle of creation, fully comparable to the first great miracle of creation, framing the worlds by the word of God.
• The denial of the special creation of Christ's body dishonors the unique divine/human nature of the Son of God and undermines His great work of salvation recorded in the Scriptures.

Selective Breeding and the Virgin Birth

• Laban offered Jacob favorable terms to retain his services, allowing Jacob to name his wages.
• Jacob had decades of experience in breeding livestock and had learned principles of animal genetics empirically.
• Jacob had a scientific mind and knew that even in a solid-colored flock, some animals had the genetic potential to produce off-colored progeny.
• Jacob trusted God to produce spotted and off-colored animals from a seemingly homogeneous flock.
• Through selective breeding, Jacob developed a flock of sheep and goats with dominant spotted and speckled coloration.
• Jacob ensured the strength and vitality of future flocks by encouraging only the stronger animals to mate using a specific method involving striped rods in watering troughs.
• Jacob's approach was honorable and scientific, benefiting Laban and enabling him to become independent.
• God providentially overruled, prospering Jacob and judging Laban in the process.
• The account is in harmony with known principles of modern genetics and may anticipate discoveries in genetic engineering.
• The Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ, a miraculous conception in the womb of the virgin Mary, has been the subject of skepticism and attacks by biblical skeptics.
• Some compromising "Christians" have downgraded the importance of the doctrine of the Virgin Birth and attempted to explain it naturalistically or spiritually.
• Various theories have been proposed to explain the Virgin Birth, including divine Incarnation, parthenogenesis, artificial insemination, and cloning.