Unfortunately, another teacher in the body of Christ is trying to make the case that Jesus Christ, in the flesh, was just like you and me. Or, as another of this ilk has proclaimed (Peter Meye): "0% Divine."

Richard Golko, who is a really great guy and a respected friend, has lately been insisting that Jesus Christ was generated by sperm. Yes, sperm: the little swimmy things that live in a man's semen. I don't think Richard believes it was Joseph's sperm, but still. (Might it be even more absurd to insist that GOD has sperm? Does He also sport testicles and a penis? Why are we even HAVING this conversation?)

Why the insistence that sperm generated Christ when we have the evidence in Luke, chapter 1 that it was an operation of the holy spirit of God? Because if we insist that Jesus was generated by a swimmy thing, then we can force Jesus Christ to be "just like us." Or "one of us." Or "0% divine." And why would we want to do that? This is what I can't quite figure out; going to all this trouble to demote Christ as just another hapless human who happened to obey better than we ever could.

I take down Richard's argument on linguistic grounds, thoroughly investigating the Greek word "sullambo," translated "conceived" in Luke chapter 1, proving why "conceived" is a bad translation. But even if it were a good translation, our Lord was the single exception of the human race, conceived, not via sperm, but via the spirit of God WITHOUT sperm?

This is not difficult. Why these teachers twist and contort Scripture to demote Christ to the level of the most common among us, well—see if you can figure it out.