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Also for some thought, did you know that David was called " the son of Abraham." (Matthew 1:1)

All Jews consider themselves children of Abraham, and Jesus was a Jew. Indeed, the Jews are children of Abraham. They were all descended from him and Sarah, while the Arabs were descended from Abraham and Hagar. But it was the line from Abraham and Sarah from which God promised to make a great nation, though when He made this promise, He just said, "I will make of you a great nation."

Jesus didn't come from Mary's seed, He came from her egg. And yes, it was the Holy Spirit from which the "seed" came. However, I don't agree that God is male. God is above and beyond having any gender. Though Jesus, Who is God, is definitely male - but that's through His human nature, not His divine nature.

Radar

Never said Jesus came from Mary's seed.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you did. I was actually agreeing with you.

I agree, Jesus did leave this world as God and as man, in His glorified body. And after the end of time, when there's a new heaven and new earth, we'll have our own glorified bodies. That'll be so cool! Revelation Chapter 21 is one of my favorite chapters in Scripture.

Radar

the seed being implanted inside of a womb grows from the egg it intered into , inside of the mother,,,the egg looks like an eggyolk

I saw a horrible video (it was very well-done, the topic was horrible) narrated by Eduardo Verastegui, the actor who befriended the pregnant woman in the movie Bella. In case you aren't familiar with that movie, it's a very pro-life movie focused on a young single woman who buys and takes a home pregnancy test, and to her shock learns she's pregnant. A touching scene shows the character played by Verastugui sitting outside the abortion clinic praying a rosary while she's inside. Then she comes out - and says she couldn't do it.

Anyway, the video starts out beautifully. It shows an actual in-uterine union of the egg and sperm - actually, it's a huge egg surrounded by hundreds (or thousands) of tiny sperm. Yes, the egg does look like an eggyolk, and it was a beautiful photo of how each of our lives began. And that's how Jesus life began - with Mary's egg, and we're not sure what the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit entailed. But the result was truly the union of God with Mary's egg, and was the child Jesus at the single-cellular moment.

Back to the video - it showed in-uterine development of the embryo, then the fetus. The sound of the baby's heartbeat is playing. About halfway through the beating gets loud, the screen goes black, and the heartbeat stops. A warning says to shut off the video if you don't want to see the graphic pictures. Then they come one, aborted fetus after aborted fetus - not just pictures, but being shown with the medical people carrying their limp and bloody bodies, or placing the torn-apart pieces in the shape of a baby to be sure they're all there. I can't watch that second part without tears rolling down my cheeks. I've got tears in my eyes as I'm typing this, just picturing it.

Mary was in the situation that could have led to an abortion today. In her case, she had given her assent, saying, "I am the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to your word." But when she started to look pregnant, you can imagine the whispers. Even after Joseph took her into his home, the people would have known, and probably whispered about, the fact that she was pregnant before that, and that the child wasn't Joseph's. People are like that.

Mary was more than just a vessel. She was an active participant, willingly going along with something she couldn't begin to understand, and enduring the whispers and jokes. That is why it is right to honor her. She could have said no, and the account in Luke makes it clear that she wasn't pregnant until, at the very earliest, the time she had said those words - and possibly not until after the angel left her. I know people on this board have said that if she had said no, God would have chosen someone else. How do we know that He hadn't sent Gabriel to another woman earlier, who refused the deal. That wouldn't make it into the Gospel, there would have been no reason for it to be there. Mary said yes, and the process of our salvation was begun.

Radar