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At and before his conception, Jesus' divine nature lay within him. Mary's labor was probably close to normal and in most respects like any other human birth. While our understanding can only be elemental at best, the and formed the human/divine fetus of Jesus' own body.
The angel told Mary that the Holy Spirit would come upon her. Joseph vehemently denied any sexual contact, so it must have been the Holy Spirit who planted the "God-sperm." There was probably all the trauma of labor, an umbilical cord to cut, and an afterbirth. The Christological conception does not necessarily make nonsense of the scientific processes involved. God generally follows natural laws, but the incarnation points up the truth that he sometimes twists these patterns to achieve his will. Apart from that crucial formative moment, Jesus' birth was probably in all other respects normal.
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