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>A consideration that will tie in: How is Christ sinless? Yes, He is God, who is sinless--yet Christ was also born in the flesh, a literal Son of Man. We, descendants of Adam and Eve, are held as being in sin. Mary was descended of Adam, and Christ was descended of Mary. So, where’s a difference?
Start by saying Mary was not sinless. (Sorry Catholics.) Mary is descended from Adam by flesh and from God by Spirit (following the line up through Adam to God).
Christ, being born of Mary, is by flesh descended from Adam. (He put on our sin as a curse, as Scripture sometimes puts it.) Yet, Christ, being *without a father in the flesh*, is not descended by the Spirit from Adam. He is of God.
He is God.
Indeed, it is rather that Adam is descended from Him by the Spirit.

We can know that one's birth does matter as Christ states:
>Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God."
>Nicodemus saith unto him, "How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?"
>Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God; that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit. Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above; the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit."

Is being a descendant of Abraham the bit, the whole thing? No, flesh is just the water. The water is important however because the Spirit is passed by the flesh and will not mix with others. (We have one Father. If your mother's is descended from Adam (by mother and father) by the flesh and your father is descended from Adam by the flesh, then you are descended from God by the Spirit, in all directions. You have, by the Spirit, one Father.)
Esau's descendants were (and are today) descendants of Abraham by the flesh, yet we are told of God that "Esau I will hate forever." Esau mixed their flesh with the Hittites. His descendants are now bastards, no longer of Adam by the flesh and Christ by the Spirit, no longer clinging to the tree. The Spirit is not in them. (Note that this is true of Esau’s *descendants*. Esau himself will be saved.)

Malachi is about this, refuting "Are we not all God's children?" (Funnily, the Pharisees--Edomites, descendants of Esau--use this line as their defense against Christ.)

The Spirit will keep true. It will not follow flesh that breaks away from the tree. This is spiritually why race-mixing is sinful. It is blasphemy of the Spirit. The Spirit will not follow. Instead you get:
>"These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up; wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept." (Jude 1:12-13)