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Techfile: 8 Things You Should Know about Christmas - religion
1. Jesus is the reason for the season:
The primary purpose for observing Christmas is
remembering Jesus’s birth. At Christmas, we celebrate
Jesus’s birthday, not the little drummer boy or Santa
Claus! 2. Jesus preexisted with God in the beginning
before the world began:
Jesus’s birth as a baby in a Bethlehem manger doesn’t
mark the beginning of his existence. Rather, as John’s
Gospel teaches explicitly (John 1:1, 14) and the other
Gospels imply, Jesus took on human flesh in addition
to existing eternally as part of the Godhead. 3. Jesus’s birth was the culmination of centuries
of messianic expectations:
Jesus’s coming occurred in fulfillment of messianic
expectations including his birthplace, virgin birth, and
other details surrounding his advent. Later, during his
earthly ministry and particularly in his death on the
cross, Jesus fulfilled many more messianic patterns
and predictions. 4. We should distinguish between cultural and
biblical Christmas:
We must separate fact from fiction, and historic,
biblical truths from mere Christmas traditions. This
includes Santa Claus, presents, reindeer, Christmas
trees, and other paraphernalia. Not that these
customs are necessarily harmful or unhelpful but they
are unhistorical. Jesus’s birth, however, isn’t a legend;
it’s historical fact. 5. Jesus’s birth is part of a larger cluster of
events that culminates in Jesus"s death for our
sins as God’s suffering servant.
Jesus wasn’t only born as a baby, he grew up as a
young man who knew the Scriptures. Then, when he
was about thirty years old, he began his public
ministry, healing many, exorcising demons, raising the
dead, and commanding the forces of nature. In
keeping with his own predictions, he died, was
buried, and after three days rose from the dead.
While at Christmas we celebrate Jesus’s birth, we
should remember that it is part of a life unlike any
other that brought us salvation and forgiveness from
sins.
While at Christmas we celebrate Jesus’s birth, we
should remember that it is part of a life unlike
any other that brought us salvation and
forgiveness from sins. 6. Jesus, the Son of God, was conceived by the
Holy Spirit in his mother Mary’s womb.
At the heart of Christmas is a biological and
theological miracle that requires supernatural faith.
Skeptics scoff at the notion of God conceiving a child
in a virgin’s womb, calling it a biological impossibility
and dismissing it as mere legend. Believers will
recognize that only a sinless human being could save
humans by dying for them, and that such a sinless
human being could only be conceived by God himself. 7. There is no incarnation without the virgin birth.
Andrew Lincoln, in his book Born of a Virgin?, has
argued that the virgin birth is unhistorical while
asserting that the incarnation could still be true in a
spiritual sense. This, however, is contrary to scriptural
teaching, which keeps the virgin birth and the
incarnation together as two sides of one and the
same coin. Only a virgin birth allows Jesus to be the
God-man who combines two natures—human and
divine—into one person as the early church councils
went on record as affirming. 8. Jesus’s birth was accompanied by rejection.
Herod tried to kill Jesus (Matt. 2:16). There was no
place for Jesus in the inn (Luke 2:7). Even though the
world was made through Jesus, the world didn’t
recognize him (John 1:11). Many didn’t welcome the
birth of the Christ child. The reason for this was
primarily that Jesus threatened people’s self-interest.
Sinful people love sin more than God and refuse to
come to the light lest their sin be exposed (John 3:19–
21).
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