DJ, actually I use a number of translations, which for the most part is rather random and yes I still use the NWT at times. Since most translations if not all do indeed have a number of errors, obviously resulting in the errors being carried over to here anyways, which translation is the truest to the source DJ? I havn't a clue myself so I end up using many of them.
AGuest, here are some scriptures dealing with God living in us to also consider:
Joh 14:23 | Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. |
Mr 9:37 | Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. |
2co 6:16 | And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
1jo 1:3 | that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ: |
If the Father and Son abode in us AGuest as a living temple, which one is the Holy Spirit? If Jesus is the Holy Spirit then what do we call Jehovah in us? Can the Holy Spirit be both Father and Son? Or is the Spirit of Truth Jesus and the Holy Spirit Jehovah's?
To answer your question about "By what means... and whom... did Mary become pregnant? The means was from the Holy Spirit (The Father) prepared a body for his Spiritual Son (Jesus the Son Of God).
Heb 10:5 | Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn`t desire, But a body did you prepare for me; |
The whom or where the seed came from for the fleshly body is from King David:
2sa 7:12 | When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. |
Making Jesus the Son Of David and the Son Of God.
Ro 1:3 | concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, |
Ro 1:4 | who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; [even] Jesus Christ our Lord, |
Peace and love to all.