The answer
Yes, for we believe that the Master Christ, to Him be glory, is God Who was incarnated. Therefore, He is God and the Son of God at the same time. This is our Faith, and we are happy with it.
It has never happened in the history of humanity that from (the time of) Adam, that a girl has born and given birth while being a virgin.
Has this ever happened?! And if every human being has a father, and Christ, as man, was born of a woman without the seed of man, who then is His father?
Some answer this question by saying that it is “omnipotence.”18 This certainly is an unconvincing, inconvenient, and insufficient answer, for the Almighty God governs the world and creation with certain laws, which do not fail. The rule of procreation has never undergone a change, except for this one instance, where a child, namely Christ, to Whom be glory, is born without a father.
If He has no human father, then God (The Father = The Origin of Existence) must be His Father, and this is how He is the Son of God.
We must add the following to what was previously said:
This matter is entirely different from the material, physical, and sexual understanding of sonship.
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II
Notes
18 Translator’s note: Cf. The Qur’ān, “His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is. So exalted is He in whose hand is the realm of all things, and to Him you will be returned” (Yā Sīn 36:82-83).
Pope Tawadros II, My Faith: A Series of Dialogues on the Creed (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, 2014), 44–45.
The pages in the book (44–45)
