by Pastor Joseph Cortes Why Jesus could not be like us Jesus was fully human, yet He was not born like us. That statement alone separates biblical Christianity from every other belief system that attempts to explain Jesus merely as a moral teacher or spiritual guide. If Jesus had been born exactly like every other human being, He would have entered the world under the same sentence that rests upon all of Adam’s descendants. A Savior who inherits Adam’s condition cannot redeem Adam’s race. Redemption required something radically different at the point of origin. From the beginning, Scripture makes clear that life is in the blood. When Adam sinned, corruption entered his blood, and death followed. That corruption did not stop with Adam; it passed through him to all humanity. Flesh alone is not the carrier of sin—blood is. This is why death reigns universally. It is not simply because people commit sins; it is because they are born into a condition that guarantees death. Therefore, if Jesus were to be the Redeemer, He could not inherit Adam’s blood. This is where the virgin birth becomes absolutely necessary. Jesus did not merely need to live a sinless life; He needed to begin life without sin. A sinless life cannot undo a sinful origin. Salvation required a man who was not only obedient but uncontaminated. God solved that problem at conception. Modern science now confirms what Scripture quietly assumed all along. The unborn child does not receive blood from the mother. Nutrition passes. Oxygen passes. Waste products pass back. But blood never mingles. Blood is formed within the embryo itself, and life does not begin until conception occurs. An unfertilized egg cannot produce blood. Without the male contribution, there is no living blood. God designed the female body with this reality embedded in it long before science ever discovered it. This was not a coincidence—it was preparation. The virgin birth was not symbolic; it was surgical in its precision. Mary contributed the flesh. The Holy Spirit contributed the blood. Because that blood was not inherited from Adam, it was not corrupted by sin.

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by Pastor Joseph Cortes Where Faith Actually Begins: The Virgin Birth Many people say the resurrection is the hardest doctrine in Christianity to believe, but that belief usually reveals something deeper. The resurrection is only difficult if a person has already stumbled earlier in the story. The true starting point of faith is not the empty tomb; it is the virgin womb. Long before Jesus ever walked out of a grave, God stepped into human history by placing life where life could not naturally exist. That moment forces every believer and skeptic alike to make a decision. The virgin birth is not an optional belief or a poetic metaphor. It is the first great act of divine intervention in the life of Christ. If God did not intervene here, then Christianity never gets off the ground. The incarnation precedes the crucifixion. The womb precedes the cross. Faith must begin at the beginning, not at the conclusion. You cannot remove the foundation and expect the structure to stand. This is why wrestling with later miracles while dismissing the virgin birth is backwards. The virgin birth came first. If God can create life without a human father, then restoring life after death is not a greater miracle—it is simply the continuation of the same divine power. Faith does not grow from believing small things first and larger things later. Faith begins by trusting God, where human reason reaches its limit. Isaiah did not speculate. He prophesied. His words were written centuries before Jesus appeared. History confirms this. The prophecy was not altered to fit events—it preceded them. God declared what He would do, then entered history to fulfill it. Faith begins when we accept that God intervenes, that He speaks, and that He acts exactly as He says He will. The virgin birth answers the fundamental question of faith: Can God enter human history and override natural limitation? Christianity stands or falls on that answer. If He can, then everything else follows naturally. If He cannot, then nothing that follows can be trusted.

Good day all, Taking the next couple of days off the God Damn The Devil and Coffee morning stream for a routine medical procedure. I expect to be back Thursday morning. Just the show, I'll be ever present otherwise. You all probably need a few days to catch up on all the morning shows you've missed. Right? HAH! Have a great day, do some discipling. What ON EARTH are you waiting for? -BigA