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Human Reproductive Cycle.
- 1 -Punctuated Equilibrium vs. the Virgin Birth Theory.
The death-and-resurrection of Jesus Christ is the pivot of Scriptures but besides its enormous theological impact, the principles and dynamics behind the Golgotha Event have been admitted enigmas to the Church throughout the ages. But no more so. Since man was made in God's image, the production of Jesus and the Body of Christ are self-similar to every human reproductive cycle.
Here's how it works:
The Bible depicts humanity or specific people-groups as a single human female1.. Now that we know that every human body consists of cells - and is really an intensely compact colony of single-celled creatures that are each endowed with an identical nucleic code - we may conclude that the members of a people are those who share a specific mental constitution; the belief in a reality-model2. And then in such a way that from all those separate individuals a super-identity with a distinct personhood rises. In fact, we may conclude that our own personhood is really nothing other than the combined consciousnesses of each little cell that makes us up3.
The Biblical Jesus was a man whose genes only came from His mother. Since she, like any other woman, was not equipped with the Y-chromosome needed to produce a male child, Jesus could only have been feminine. Unless, of course, He was supposed to be something completely different, even so unique that science has not recognized and certainly not classified the event.
The body of every human being consists of cells that have a double set of chromosomes. But every human being also has a small quantity of cells that only have a single set of chromosomes. These are the gametes, the reproductive cells; spermatozoa (seed cells) for men, ova (egg cells) for women. Jesus was not simply the founder of a new religion. The Body of Christ (which is feminine, a.k.a Ecclesia) is a person that consists of many persons, and Jesus is incarnate in that Body. It doesn't take a great leap to land on the genetic essence of Jesus: He was a gamete!
Punctuated Equilibrium
Speciation - that is the bringing forth of a new species by an old one - is not very well understood by mankind today. When Charles Darwin observed what he called evolution, he figured that species kind of gradually formed from their parent species. The fossil record, when less interrupted than in Darwin's days, should show it. And after a century and a half of digging, brushing and hoping, the fossil record stayed the way it was: new species had the tendency to just show up and hardly grow gradually out of older populations. Some brilliant biologists came to the rescue.In 1972, Stephen J. Gould and Niles Eldredge expanded a speciation theory of Ernst Mayr and named it Punctuated Equilibrium. It goes like this (summarizing Wikipedia's citation of Gould's 1980 article):
A large and stable population stays the way it is because any mutation is too small a change in the grand scheme of things; it gets rubbed out. For a beneficial mutation to survive, it must occur somewhere on the edge of the population, where it can create a pocket of isolated, influenced individuals. New species should always emerge on the edge of a population and then, when the mutation caused a new species, move into the parent population and be different.
The objections to this theory are the same as the general objections to the evolution theory itself: We're evolving the wrong way! The second law of thermo dynamics dictates that everything must fall apart over time, and not together. The mechanism of mutation and natural selection (which obviously exists) is too puny a force to bring forth the diversity of life, and the only reason that people cling to it is that there is no valid alternative. Until now:
The Virgin Birth Theory
Abarim Publications likes to propose a new theory; the Virgin Birth Theory:The behavior of a species is self-similar to the behavior of an individual. When a species has matured enough, it will reproduce in a way that is self-similar to the reproduction of a single female individual.
In the realm of single-cellular creatures, this means that a population simply breaches in two, and each half evolves separately. But in the mammalian world, speciation should occur by means of a virgin birth! A mammalian population should simply get pregnant.Initially, something like a placenta should form; a group of individuals within the population that is still part of the population but in which yet another group emerges: the fetal population, which is much smaller but definitely distinct. During the gestation period, the two new forms live side by side within the parental group, and the fetal group obviously feeds off the placental group. When the new species suddenly begins to assert itself (after its speciative birth) it will distinguish itself from the parental species, and the placental group will swiftly dissolve.
The Virgin Birth Theory could explain why the fossil record shows the sudden appearance of species. And specifically, it might explain why Homo Sapiens emerged somewhat around the same time as Neanderthal, stayed dormant for eons, and then, all of a sudden, emerged and extinguished Neanderthal.
Notes:
1) Eze 16, 2 Cor 11:2, Rev 12, Rev 16, Rev 21:2
Genders in Scriptures work differently than in our modern world. In the Bible masculinity is the tendency towards individuality and femininity is the tendency towards collectivity. The essence of Jesus as instigator of the Body of Christ is mental rather than physical. One does not require a specified physical constitution to take part in the Body. Hence, the genetic constitution of Jesus is irrelevant and perhaps mentioned only because of the mental implications of His person.
2) Belief in this sense is not devotion or submission to a code of conduct or dogmatic library, but much more the fabric of the mind upon which all thoughts are displayed. It denotes an essence much more than a conviction.
3) The diversity of Scripture interpretation should be as diverse as the various interpretations of the DNA in our bodies. Just like cells may interpret the same DNA to mean: become a nerve cell, or become a muscle cell, or a transparent eye-cell, or a rigid bone-cell, so will the same Scriptures form human minds into a vastly differing array of beings and sub-orders much like the organs of a corporeal body. Some of us don't even belong to a distinct organ, but are afloat in the mental bloodstream of the Body of Christ. Maybe some of us are blood-cells and carry nutrients and spirit to the various organs. Maybe some of us are white blood-cells and spend their lives chasing foreign objects such as heresies and untrue certainties, or even semi-Biblical sects that hang in the Body like cancerous growths.
