If God is invisible, how did he have a seed to conceive Jesus of Nazareth?

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How could Jesus have been conceived if God (the father) is invisible? There is no explanation for a lapse between having a con-substance (eg a seed) and being invisible. It cannot be ex nihilo then and he is not invisible as the Church/Jews past believe. The only christian ration is that Jesus conceived himself by himself by his own seed with no outside intervention. Like a self reproducing celluloid eg not invisible.
 
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GOD created the whole Universe from nothing. Believe me making a woman conceive without human intervention is really no so big of a deal for GOD!
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How could Jesus have been conceived if God (the father) is invisible? There is no explanation for a lapse between having a con-substance (eg a seed) and being invisible. It cannot be ex nihilo then and he is not invisible as the Church/Jews past believe. The only christian ration is that Jesus conceived himself by himself by his own seed with no outside intervention. Like a self reproducing celluloid eg not invisible.
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Since the Holy Trinity produced all created things, to create the genetic material necessary for the male human nature of Jesus Christ is present. Jesus Christ is the Son of God that assumed a human nature in addition to the divine nature unchanged.
 
Obviously it was not the natural way of conceiving. But God did take the genetic material (humanity) from Mary.
 
All material actualization happens when a creature and God know together (which is why the happening is temporal, since the creature knows one thing at a time).
Mary and the LORD she served both knew conception together as Gabriel spoke God’s eternal knowing in his temporal description and declaration to Mary. They knew together and it was as they knew. The Father always knew that when Mary knew with him, his Son would be humanly known (“conceived”) in her womb with his divine knowing (“divine conception”).

When a man and woman “conceive” they are “knowing together”, but not paying any attention to God’s knowing with them, but their conception works because God eternally knows his creating this new soul at the time of the temporal man and woman knowing each other - if God does not know this knowing then conception does not happen.

It is NOT a coincidence that conception is tied to a knowing by the parents - we have become juveniles when we call it “sex”.
 
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Let me take a stab at this. Lol
" He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation… Colossians 1:15.
Who " He" is has always seemed confusing if you follow scripture.
Jesus the man does not historically appear to be first man. Via the incarnation however, and our faith determining Jesus Christ fully man and fully God, it has always seemed to be a temporal anomaly in reading Colossians. The anomaly is this:
John 1:1 says ," In the beginning there was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD WAS GOD.
THE BEGINNING means just that temporally and eternally. Temporally in terms of creation, eternally in terms of uncreated being. But John speaks of THE WORD, not Jesus Christ in 1;1. We know from Genesis there are at least 6 days. Let there be light is day one. Earth comes later. Jesus was born Christmas day only 2000 years ago.
That leaves billions of years science tells us( 6 in Genesis). Billions or 6, The Word was not Jesus Christ it seems for billions of years. Through the OT also.
The Word was part of the Trinity.
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At the incarnation Word and man.
The interesting part is that the word is eternal. Which invokes an idea similar to " relate back" which is a legal doctrine, but perhaps applies here.
The eternal Christ that is Jesus was always eternal. The man Jesus is relatively new. Together, Christ Jesus takes on both truths it seems.
I raise that because you use invisible as part of your question and Colossians is so prominently worded in terms of a invisible. " He" is different from the invisible, born signifies a difference. That difference of course is mystery, but it definitely is related to " creation". Creation segregates " the other" who is " uncreated".
Which brings you to incarnation. It is clearly mystery. The joining of spirit to flesh is the actual mystery. The first mystery. Seed is physical, a material temporal, flesh thing.
 
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Obviously it was not the natural way of conceiving. But God did take the genetic material (humanity) from Mary.
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God’s Holy Spirit which is spirit, invisible - “impregnated” Mary - a human.

Jesus, now Incarnate, nonetheless - differs from all other humans (human fathers)
 
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