It is true that God isn’t like man: he doesn’t get married or have children.  This metaphor isn’t as you’ve understood it.  Before Christ was born, God sent the angel Gabriel to a girl called Mary, and the angel said to her, ‘You’ll become pregnant and give birth to a boy!’ Mary asked him, ‘How can that happen to me?  I haven’t got a husband.’ He told her, ‘The Spirit of God will come down on you and the power of God will cover you.  That’s why we’ll call the special boy who’ll be born to you the Son of God’.

            One born from the womb of a virgin without a man would not be like other people, would he!  Christ did miracles more than any other prophet.  He made the blind to see, the paralysed to walk, the lepers to be clean, the deaf to hear and the dead to rise.  Vast numbers of people believed in him because the spiritual power of God was seen in him more than in all the prophets of past times.  He could do all this because he wasn’t like us.  His body was a human body, but the spirit in him was the spirit that descended upon him in his mother’s womb.  His appearance was that of a man, but the power in him was the power of heaven.

            That’s why Christ never did anything evil or blameworthy.  Each of the prophets asked for God’s forgiveness, just as we do ourselves.  One of them asked God to forgive him as many as seventy times.  But Christ never asked for forgiveness, not even once.  One day he asked the people, ‘Which of you can prove me guilty of a sin?’ No one replied – there was nothing they could say.  Another day they testified concerning him, ‘He never did any sin!’ All this goes to show that he wasn’t like other people.

            So, why do we call him the son of God?  Firstly, because he was born through the spirit of God.  And secondly because in him was the power of God.  But there’s still a third reason – because God appointed him to do something that the prophets could not do.  He sent the one who was blameless to bear the blame of others.  He sent the one who wasn’t liable to the judgment of death so that he could die in our place.

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