The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-24
HE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST
Or Was Jesus Christ God Manist /,
The Flesh?
(By John Marcus

All through the ages past, among
the children of men, the doctrine tnas
men must have Christ, has been d
current thought of the race There
ras ever been a gravitation towards a
Man. who, by the perfectness OF his
manhood, should be able to restore
that something, which the universal
consciousness affirms to have been
lost. Even amid the darkness of
heathenism this conscious need and
desire was manifest, and is to this
day
DR.. Parker, of scholarly fame, once
said: The historian introduces a
man, under the name of Jesus, who
was begotten as no other man was be-
gotten. He does not represent the us
ual conditions of human birth, but
stands alone among all men. The nys-
teriousness of his origin, even If il be
but supposition, will supply an easily
available test of his entire life and
teaching; the man who begins as no
other man ever began, must continue
as no other man ever continued"
The fact of the Incarnation was COM
municated to Adam and Eve imme-
diately after their fall. In Genesis 3.15
we read; And ! will put enmity be-
tween thee (Satan) and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it
shall bruise thy heao, and thou shalt
bruise his heel" Right here we have
the first promise Of Redeemer. Here
begins the highway of the Seed, \
Abel, Seth, Noah, (Gen. $500, Shem
.(Gen. 1926, ~, Abraham (Gen. 12:1-4),
Isaac (Gen. 17:19-21. Jacob Gen
2S:1014), judah (Gen. 49:1O) David
e Samuel 7:5-1D. Immanuel-Christ
lisa 1914; Matt Ill, 20-23; John
3:S; John l2:313. These links in the
chain carries us on to John 1:1-17,
where we have the fulfillment of the
prophetic testimony in this sublime
declaration of the Deity of Jesus
Christ.
The mother Of the race must have
had no other thought than that hui
manity would be delivered from its
fallen condition through the SLED
for we read in Genesis Al
(literally translated), And Ada,a
knew Eve his wife; and she conceived,
and bare Cain, and said have gotten
the Goldman But how sadly mis-
taken was Eve. This son by natural
birth was a murderer, the progenitor
in a spiritual sense, of all those vino
deny the Deity of Jesus Christ, and
the efficacy of His atoning blood.
1t is true that in other senses than
that of the procreation of human life.
there have. been miraculous concep-
tions in every conceptions. 1
mean, by the overshadowing and power
Of the Holy Spirit. Every real thought
Of God among men, every upward tend
ency of the soul Godward, has been
an effect of divine operation upon the
mind. But in our Lord Jesus Christ
alone have we life which claims TO
have been produced Immediately BY
4 superhuman relation to the human
body"
Another says: Though so produced,
the Holy Thing born of the Virgin did
not collide with the human race as an
antagonistic element, but
look his place in the human family by
4 process which, on one side, was
fitted to awaken awe, and on the other,
70 excite sympathy"
The Gospels profess to be an authen-
.ic history of a Man who openly claim
ID to have been begotten by the Holy
Ghost. How can we test the validity |
If such claim? There is surely a /
simple and effectual plan, and that is, |
IS the mystery of the life consistent
With the alleged mystery OF the origin?
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