The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-01
THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST
or Was Jesus Christ God Manist in
The Flesh?
(By John Marcus.)

men must have a 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 mys-
nervousness of his origin, even if it 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 8: Is
we read; And ! will put enmity be-
tween thee (Satan) and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it
shall bruise thy head, 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. 6:S-10), Shem
(Gen. 9:26, 27), Abraham (Gen. 12:1-4) /,
Isaac (Gen. 17:19-21, Jacob (Gen.
2S:1O-14, Judah (Gen. 49:10, David
| q Samuel 7:5-17, Immanuel-Christ
Qsa 1914 Matt. IL, 2O-29; / John
1873; John 12:3D 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 SEED
promised; for we read in Genesis A
Qiterally translated), And Adam
knew Eve his wife; and she conceived,
and bare CAIN and said, l have gotten
the Goldman" But how sadly mis-
taken was Eve This son by natural
birth was murderer, the progenitor,
in 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 misconceptions, /
mean, by the overshadowing and power
Iof the Holy Spirit. Every real thought
of God among men, every upward tend
lency 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 10
have been produced Immediately by
a 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 ar
unexpected antagonistic element, but
took his place in the human family by
! a process which, on one side, was
fitted to awaken awe, and on the other
to excite sympathy
The Gospels profess to be an authen
tic history of Man who openly claim
ed to have been begotten by the Holy
Ghost. How can we test the validity
of such a claim? There is surely &
; simple and effectual plan, and that is
: Is the mystery of the life consistent
with the alleged mystery of the origin
: Is the doctrine consistent with the
: birth? If the man be found to be il
perfect accord with the mystery; il
! there be no break in the rhythm be
tween the sayings of the teacher anC
} the alleged revelation of the ange
who foretold his birth, then this unity
of mystery becomes itself an argumen-
which compels certain conclusions.
Again, let it be emphasized OMNIP
Z OTENCE COVERS THE WHOLE
| GROUND OF DIFFICULTY AS TIC
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH A CON
CEPTION AS IS CLAIMED ON BE
: HALF OF JESUS CHRIST.
Note another fact: Jesus was al
2 ways Wiling to be identified as tn,
4 Son of Mary, YET HE NEVET
: SPEAKS OF ANY OTHER FATHET
l BUT GOD.
In recent years there has arisen al
5 extremely radical school of Historical
: criticism, to which reference kts beer
made in former papers by tie writer
: This school, in its attacks, is not con
T fined to the article of the Virgin birth
e In referring to this matter Professo
Orr of the Free Church University o