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[quote=Anonymous][quote=takoma]I'm terribly confused.  I thought that for Christians Jesus WAS God, walking the Earth as  man.  To be a man, I suppose He had to have the experience of birth.  If the body He occupied had DNA, it must have come from his mother.  But through Joseph He was of the House of David, right?  So perhaps he also received DNA from Joseph; surely God could have managed that by some means other than physical congress.

As many of you know, I'm an atheist and don't actually believe that Jesus was other than a normal mortal, but I have enough respect for those who believe to try to reason within their belief system.  I hope it is not taken as an insult by anyone.[/quote]

Yup, in my mind Jesus probably had Mary's DNA.  Otherwise what was the point.  Jesus was both divine AND human.  So it would make sense that he had human DNA from a human mother.  Interesting question as to whether he also had Joseph's DNA.  I've heard Joseph referred to as Jesus' adopted dad, so that sort of implies that he doesn't have Joesph's DNA, but that's hardly advanced theological reasoning.[/quote]

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