Friday, January 18, 2013


Original Sin and Y Chromosome   
 
  Men and women are both born with original sin/sin nature. But only man transmits original sin / sin nature. Woman are recipient only and does not transmit original sin/sin nature.
        
I believed in dichotomy and that at the fall, both the material and immaterial aspects of us were all corrupted. Every single cell, chromosomes/DNA of our material body were corrupted. If we believed that life starts at the moment of conception, when a single fertilized egg starts to divide and grow into a human being, then it would mean that we inherited corrupted  23 chromosomes from each of our parent and that life of an individual is procreated from a corrupted cell. 
    
 Psalm 51:5  Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Biological background:
    1. Human has 23  pairs (n=46) of chromosomes. Receiving one set (n=23) from each parent. The 23rd pair is either a pair of XX (female) or XY(male)
    2. Gametes of female contain only X chromosomes, and no Y. While male has both X and Y chromosomes.
Virgin birth is a supernatural act of God

a.       Miracle one – A virgin birth –  An unfertilized egg inside Mary started to undergo mitotic–division without fertilization. (The process of division is supposed to undergo mitotic division only when it is fertilized. Unfertilized egg degenerates when it travels to fallopian tube from ovary and is discharged from the body through menstruation.)

b.      Miracle two – Even if conception occurred and started to undergo mitotic-division without fertilization, because Mary’s body does not have Y chromosome, the offspring will always be a female and never a male.

c.       Miracle three – Jesus having the exact same chromosomes (identical DNA coding) as Mary, should have an identical physical feature as Mary- not to mention that the offspring of a virgin birth should have been a girl.

d.      Miracle four – God supplied the Y chromosomes by the power of the Holy Spirit in Jesus for him to become a man (not a woman)

Creation of Adam and Eve
  • Gen 2:22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib (a part of) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
    God could have made Eve from the dust just like He made Adam but instead God made Eve from a part taken out of Adam. Having the chromosomes/DNA of Adam, Eve should have been a male and have an identical physical anatomy with Adam. Is it possible that God took out the Y chromosomes from the part He took out of Adam when He made Eve

    is it possible that God took out the Y chromosomes from pre-fall Adam and held it in abeyance until Jesus?

Transmission of original sin
  • Adam was given the command before Eve and became the guardian of the command. God had also put him in charge of everything. At the fall, Adam transgressed the law of God and abdicated his responsibility as the commander in chief. The consequences given to Adam were different from that of Eve although they both sinned alike. Following the concept of "Federal headship" , can we say that the transmission of sin is written in the Y chromosomes.
  • In other words, Man becomes the transmitter of the original sin while women are recipient and not a transmitter of original sin/sin nature. Like men all women are also born depraved, but they do not transmit the original sin. This means when Jesus was born through a virgin birth- not known by man, he was born sinless.
  • All human comes from a single fertilized cell. Therefore at the embryonic level, Y chromosomes becomes the transmitter of original sin while X chromosomes becomes the recipient and not as transmitter of original sin.

    When Mary conceived without the help of a man, the fertilized egg contain only X chromosomes and the offspring should have been a female. But …
Scriptural references
Romans 4:15  because the law brings wrath. And here there is no law there is no transgression.
1 Timothy 2:14  And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
Romans 5:12   Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ ] Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— Note; (not Adam and Eve)
Romans 5:14  Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
Gen 3: 16  And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Gen 3;2  We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
Luke 1:3  The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God


1 Corinthians 15:45  So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.


Conclusion
                Is it possible that God took the Y chromosomes from pre-fall Adam and held in abeyance and now put into the egg of Mary resulting in a XY / male offspring. Since the Y chromosomes was taken out of pre-fall Adam and that XX chromosomes of woman/female do not transmit original sin. therefore Jesus was born without sin. This also makes Jesus totally human having both X and Y chromosomes of a human being but free from original sin.

PS:  The above are just conjecture speculating what might have happened based on observable law of nature. Our beliefs must stay within what the Scripture has said and how we must respond.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

First I would be interested if these are original thoughts or if you read all or part of this somewhere else? Not implying that you did, I am just curious because I would like to read other sources of this type of information - if they are out there. Second let me say I never heard this propounded anywhere by anyone and I believe that when you think of it, God always connects all the dots, and that it would be necessary for this to be the case - keeping the untarnished Y chromosome from Adam for Jesus. Otherwise He would be a new and district creation, not from the lineage of Adam! In order to save those fallen, which is everyone ever born including Adam - Adams seed (or race -) the Savior must come from Adams loins ( Heb 2:17) and yet be without sin. Furthermore, He also needed the lineage of the house of David which came through Mary. The way I see it this is the only possible explanation for this Biblical dilemma!

The one question that always plagued me was that if Jesus didn't have some measure of fallen man within him, could he really sympathize with my weaknesses - tempted in "all" things as we are (Heb 4:15). In a sense Jesus would be more than and different from me in some way, and in effect disqualify Him from being fully"sympathetic" with me and my weakness. Also this would justify people from not walking as He walked because there capacity in some way is less than Jesus, because He is different and distinct, and they are in affect weaker than Him! Mary's egg was of a fallen nature and was used to create Jesus - weather people want to accept that or not, that's the case! Yet He was in fact without any practical sin. Now if that doesn't encourage the body of Christ to live in victory, I don't know what will!

My conclusion is this, your evaluation of this matter is the only fail safe explanation that fits the Biblical text. Great job, I appreciate your labor in the Lord and it has blessed me to come upon your blog. Keep it up! My email is jlbottone@me.com if you want to respond