Friday, April 11, 2008

The overshadowing

In all the Scriptures, when conception is discussed, it's always the woman who does the conceiving, not the man. Adam knew Eve his wife, Eve conceived. David comforted his wife, Bathsheba conceived.

The woman has the power to conceive. Yes, she needs the man's seed, but - she does the conceiving part. And when she conceives, she does not have the power to conceive a fish or a cat or... the Divine, either. She can conceive only her own kind.

Supplied with the needed seed, she has power to conceive a human being, nothing more, nothing less. (and I mean "she has the power" not assuming that all women do. I understand this because I understand infertility through personal experience. I mean generally.)

A human woman cannot conceive the Divine. She doesn't have that power. Only the Divine can conceive the Divine. Kind conceives kind.

So.. how was the Divine conceived in Mary? Mary didn't do it. Her strictly human nature didn't allow for it. She must have been empowered, enabled, gifted by the Holy Spirit to be able to conceive the Divine nature within her womb.

I submit that's what happened when the Holy Spirit came upon her. The Spirit gave her what she did not have - the ability to conceive something not of her kind. Then, when the Power of the Most High overshadowed her... she was ready.

So.. the Spirit acted the feminine part with Mary, enabling her to cooperate with the Father's will, and conceive within her the dual-natured Son of God - God in human form, fully God, fully human.

Begotten by The Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. Thus, God begat. God and only God. Both the implanting and the conceiving. God did both, showing within the unity of the Godhead the oneness of complementary gender attributes.

To me, this makes the most sense of both the physics, the metaphysics, and the text, and properly represents the fullness of gender attributes present in the Godhead.

What do you think?

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