Christology The Objections to the Incarnation Part 1

C. The Objections to the Incarnation.

Many of the enemies of God are within the body of — those who claim to be Christians, but deny the virgin birth of Christ. Someone may ask: “When a person is to be saved, does he have to believe in the virgin birth of Christ to be saved? Is this one doctrine which one must believe and understand to be saved?” Let us answer by asking this: “Do you believe that it is possible for a saved person not to believe in the virgin birth of Christ?” Of course not! All saved, born-again saints of God will believe that . The only thing that a lost person has to do to be saved is to and , believing that He died for his sins and that He rose again from the dead. Saved people will believe in the .

Those who say they are Christians, and deny the virgin birth, are mere “professors” and not “possessors.” These enemies within, and those without the professing Church, object to the virgin birth by the following arguments:

1. The . This statement is not true, but it would not matter much if it were, for we know that “the carnal mind is : for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be” (). The unconverted heart knows not God nor of the things of God; and, of course, it would not believe in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Unregenerated scholars may not accept this divine truth, but there are great minds of this world sitting upon the chairs of learning in our leading colleges and universities — saved men - who believe and testify to the virgin birth of Jesus. Really, a person is not indeed educated until he believes God and His Word: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” ().

2. The . Certainly Matthew is not silent concerning it; surely Luke is not silent concerning it. God has provided two witnesses, for “in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” (). God fulfills the Law, thus establishing the truth concerning the virgin birth of our Redeemer. What if there were only one witness? It still would be true, for it is God who speaketh.

a. But There is the . By this we present which proves the virgin birth of Christ. There is nothing said against the virgin birth. Mark the birth of the Lord; does he mean to state that Christ never existed? Of course not. The Gospel of Mark presents Jesus as the ; and when considering a servant, no one cares to know his genealogy; thus . The first verse of Mark’s Gospel states: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” Any Hebrew knows that this means that Jesus Christ was on an equal with God, and we know that the record tells us of things Jesus Christ did which no other man could ever do.

b. But There is the . “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (). Indeed this is not the record of a mere man, but the Son of Man, the Son of God, God Himself!

c. But There is the . While stating that these arguments are of Mark, John, Paul, and others, let us bear in mind that, while these men penned these words, the words are the words of God, and they express His mind upon the virgin birth of His Son.

Paul was separated “unto the gospel of God . . . concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of ; and declared to be , according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. . . . what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in , and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” (). “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes , that ye through his poverty might be rich” (). See also Philippians 2:5-7; Galatians 4:4; I John 4:2; Colossians 2:8.

The Objections to the Incarnation, Part 1

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