“In conclusion, we ask you to read Deuteronomy, 18:15-19 inclusive. From this prophecy you will clearly see that Jesus could not have been a Son of God after the flesh, and if there was nothing else in the whole Scriptures to contradict the miraculous conception, the words of Jesus himself contradict it positively: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” If these words mean anything, they mean that Spirit cannot generate flesh and that flesh cannot generate spirit. So we repeat, if there were no other statements in the Scriptures to deny the Miraculous Conception of the Lord Jesus, his own words would deny it.
We thought to leave this question for others to discuss, as it is at present a mooted question; but, because of the great necessity of a correct understanding of this subject, in order to justify the truth of the Scriptures in general, as well as to remove the dark veil that is thrown over the church by this fallacy of the Miraculous Conception, we found it necessary to make the foregoing statements in as brief a form as possible.
We have but to glance around us to see the result of this false doctrine. We see the church worshipping “the mother of God.” The whole Church, Protestant and Catholic, is bowing down and worshipping the image of a man – actually worshipping the flesh of a man, of a son of Abraham! Thus, the people are transgressing the commandment, “Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, the likeness of any form that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them.” Yet the entire Christian world is bowing down and worshipping and essaying to serve a man, in the image of themselves.
This doctrine was also the cause of the great persecution of the early church and of the dogma of the transmutation of the wafer and the wine into the actual body of Christ. In fact, you can easily trace all the great errors and evils that have followed the Christian church to the belief that the fleshly seed of Abraham was the son of God, forgetting all about that spiritual soul that was indeed the real man, the real savior of the world.
As God said by the prophet, “I, even I, am Yahveh; and beside me there is no savior.” Some may say: Then Jesus the Christ is God. So he is, but that flesh of Abraham is not God, but as Jesus said, “The Father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works”, and he is God; he is our Savior.”
Hiram Butler