Didn’t Jesus receive a sinful nature through His mother Mary? Mary was not “immaculately conceived” in her mother’s womb. The Bible does not teach this; Mary knew she needed a Savior (Lk 1:47). Besides, this doesn’t solve the problem—it only moves it back one generation. Human reasoning will always leave us with Job’s question: “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?” (14:4). He answered his own query with the brief “not one.” He could not anticipate “the mystery of godliness…God was manifest in the flesh” (1 Tim 3:16). We take the words of the angel at face value: “The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God” (Lk 1:35). Our Lord Jesus is “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners” (Heb 7:26). God brought a woman out of a man without a mother in Eden, and this Man out of a woman without a father at the incarnation.