“This makes sense only if he (Jesus) really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin … Either this man was, and is the Son of God: or else a madman and something worse.”
Secondly, it seems that reverse engineering has been written into Christianity but probably not intentionally. Only after John and early church doctors had established the philosophy that the being, Jesus, was the Word, the Logos, the anointed Son of God, it appears that in the 9th century, an English monk and historian, Eadmer (died 1124?) prepared a tract mentioning a stainless conception of Mary into her mother Anne's womb (De Conceptione Sanctae Mariae).
This Immaculate Conception of Mary then became a celebrated liturgical feast in England. This unusual conception was necessary because the mother of God would need to be sinless—without blemish, or she would genetically pass on to Jesus the original sin all babies have suffered since Eve and Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden. As a sinless person, Mary was capable of conceiving Jesus in her own womb via the Holy Spirit, rather than by sexual impregnation by her husband, Joseph. Now, Jesus had an earthly Mother Mary and a heavenly Father, Almighty God.
Duns Scotus (circa 1266) also insisted that Mary’s Immaculate Conception in her mother's womb was free from original sin. This had an additional benefit. She would not have to depart this life through the grave like the rest of humanity. Instead, she was lifted alive bodily into heaven.
Both Mary’s conception in her mother's womb and her assumption into heaven without dying became infallible dogma in the Roman Church many centuries later (Immaculate Conception 1854 - Assumption 1950).
Thirdly, all of scripture, both the Old and the New Testaments, is regarded as being inspired by God. Jesus necessarily believed this because, according to John, Jesus as the Word existed from eternity along with his Heavenly Father and was equally responsible for what John wrote down in his gospel.
“Do not thi
nk that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17). This means that the atrocities commanded by Yahweh in the Old Testament were equally legitimized and inspired by Jesus Christ himself. (See “The Unholy Book of the Dead Sea” in this Blogcritics series)
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