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is a continuation of that same kind of human life
continually reproduced after its kind.
This human reproduction was the exact type of
divine reproduction by which God is reproducing
himself.
Human reproduction started with the first human,
the man Adam. Divine reproduction has started with
the second Adam, Jesus Christ. Jesus was begotten
and born as a human being, just as all humans have
been, except that God was his Father, and therefore,
one of his names is Emmanuel, which means "God
with us," or, "God in the human flesh." Therefore,
Jesus Christ was human, born of the human virgin
Mary, but he was also God, sired by the Spirit of
God. The Spirit of God actually fertilized or
imparted life to an ovum in the womb of the virgin
Mary.
Now examine human reproduction. Human life
starts from an egg, or an ovum, produced through an
ovary in the human mother-to-be. This ovum, of
itself, has only a very temporary life-a matter of
days. Unless fertilized by a sperm cell from the
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body
of the male, it will soon die.
The female ovum is about the size of a
pinpoint- not the head, but the tiny point of a pin,
barely large enough to be seen through the naked eye.
The male sperm cell that will fertilize it is the smallest
cell in the human body, only one fiftieth the size of
the ovum. In the female ovum is a still more tiny
nucleus. Once the male sperm cell penetrates and
enters the ovum, it joins immediately with the
nucleus. At that instant, human life has begun.
This very start of human life is the exact type of the
beginning of the divine life. Jesus said he had come
that we "might have life, and that [we] might have it
more abundantly" (John 10:10). He was talking about
the fact he had come that we might have immortal,
divine life, which would be a much more abundant life
than this frail human life. Jesus said, at the beginning
of his ministry on earth,
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will build my church"
(Matt. 16: 18). Jesus chose and called 12 disciples to
be taught the good news or gospel of the kingdom of
God-the kingdom of God beings that shall reign over
all the nations of this earth, beginning with the
Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Now consider carefully this fact: Human
reproduction is the exact type of divine reproduction.
In every human tbere is human spirit. The human
brain, as scientists have learned in the new science of
brain research, differs little from animal brain. Yet we
learn from many scriptures in the Bible that in every
human brain resides a human spirit. This spirit
empowers the physical brain with intellect, which
makes the vast difference between human ability to
think, to reason, to acquire knowledge, to have a sense
of spiritual values, which animals do not possess.
A factor that has greatly puzzled and mystified
human scientists-especially in the new science of
brain research- is what constitutes the incredible
difference. between the vast output of the human
brain as compared to the animal brain. They cannot
account for it on physical grounds, and most all
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stubbornly refuse to accept the truth as it is on
spiritual grounds.
Most scientists, it seems, refuse to accept the
existence of spirit. That very refusal caused the
development in human imagination of the theory of
evolution. Evolution is the atheist's and the
agnostic's explanation of the presence of the physical
creation without the preexistence of the great
supernatural spirit Creator who is God.
The Holy Bible is the word of the Creator God.
In it , God, who knows the rationalizations and
reasonings of the natural mind cut off from him,
says of these unbelieving skeptics, "But the natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them, because they are spiritually discerned"
(1
Cor. 2:14).
The God-rejecting mind, therefore, will be
incapable of understanding what is to follow in this
Personal.
In the comparison of human reproduction to
divine reproduction, each human being is an ovum.
Each of us might be called a spiritual ovum. Each
has a limited life span on average of approximately
72 or 73 years at present. Unless fertilized within a
life span by the spiritual male sperm, which is the
Holy Spirit from the very body of God the Father,
each of us will perisli. How, then, does divine life
start?
The original apostles had been taught and trained
for sorne three and one half years by Jesus. They
were, as it were, spiritual ova. They did not receive
the spiritual sperm cell from God the Father until
after Christ's sacrifice and resurrection and
ascension to heaven.
On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit carne
and entered into the disciples gathered together, all
in one accord. This divine sperm cell from the body
of God the Father was the Holy Spirit-the very
divine, life-imparting Spirit of God. Naturally, on
entering the apostles, this Spirit went immediately to
the nucleus of the human, which is the mind. There
it joined with the human spirit that had been a part
of the human being from human conception.
Thus the humans who received the Holy Spirit of
God had the divine life of God imparted into them.
They thus became the begotten children of God.
When the Holy Spirit enters the human mind, it
unites the human mind with the mind of God.
The human spirit imparts capacity to acquire
physical and material knowledge infinitely superior
to that acquired by the animal brain. It also imparts
to the physical brain limited spiritual concepts of
good as opposed to evil, albeit on the human
spiritual leve!. However, with the addition of the
divine Spirit of God to this human spirit, the human
mind is capable of acquiring the spiritual knowledge
of the purposes, ways and objectives of God.
The human spirit cannot see, think, hear or
indulge in the process of reasoning.
It
is the brain
that sees through the eye, hears through the ear, and
does the thinking and
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