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“Jesus cannot have inherited genetic material from Mary, otherwise He would have
inherited original sin.”
This is not stated in Scripture and even contradicts important points.
The language of the NT indicates physical descent, which must be true for Jesus
to have fulfilled the prophecies that He would be a descendant of Abraham,
Jacob,
Judah
and David.
Also, the Protevangelium of Gen. 3:15, regarded as Messianic by both early Christians and
the Jewish Targums, refers to “the seed of the
woman.” This is supported by Gal.
4:4, “God sent forth His Son, coming
(genomenon) from a woman.” Most importantly, for Jesus to have
died for our sins, Jesus, the “last Adam” (1 Cor. 15:45), had to share in our humanity (Heb. 2:14), so must have been our relative via common
descent from the first Adam as Luke 3:38 says. In fact, seven centuries before His
Incarnation, the prophet Isaiah spoke of Him as literally the
“Kinsman-Redeemer,” i.e., one who is related by blood to those he redeems (Isaiah 59:20 uses the same Hebrew word goel as used to
describe Boaz in relation to Ruth). To answer the concern about original sin,
the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary (Luke 1:35), preventing any sin nature from being transmitted.
Source: Answers in Genesis
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