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To Kristen (comment #79)
You are correct – I didn’t, I didn’t want to address too many things at once lest we all get lost on a tangential rabbit trail.

To answer:
You presume that the nature of our birth is accidental.
I do not.

We must not ignore that the first chapter of Matthew was a geneaology – the Messiah was promised of a very specific lineage. In fact in the Torah – long before there was a Hebrew kingship at all – God established that the King of Israel would be born of the tribe of Judah and that the priests would be of the tribe of Levi. These are “accidents of birth” yet God chose to ordain them for His purposes. I feel highly uncomfortable suggesting that God was not quite as enlightened as our modern society has come to be.