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What Child Is This?

Ray Evans • May 2, 2020
A lot of people have trouble with the "Christmas" story. 

An unmarried pregnant teenage girl blaming her pregnancy on God.  C'mon, who's gonna believe it?

That's the point, it was not meant for everyone to believe the Bible.  The Bible is God's instruction manual for his children and believe it or not, we are not all God's children.

God did not come to earth in human form as is commonly taught. The baby Jesus is not God...he's a baby.  A special baby, yes.  God?  No.  He is a human, chosen by God to be the Messiah. 

We should all be very thankful he took his "calling" seriously.  Without his sacrifice, we would all be condemned. 

Jesus was fully human, subject to the same trials and tribulations as the rest of us; he won't become the firstborn "Son of God" until the Spirit descends on him (Luke 3:22).  Which is why very little is known of his childhood. 

Jesus never claimed to be God and always referred to God as his Father.  It doesn't make him any less worthy of praise, just not as God.

The "Trinity" can be confusing.  How can God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit all be God?  How can God speak from heaven, while God (Jesus) is on earth.  And, if the Holy Spirit is God, why did God (the Spirit) light on God (Jesus) in the form of a dove? 

Preachers love to quote Isaiah to prove their postion, "And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6) but that's what he will be called, not who he is.

At the risk of oversimplification think of it this way: God is Spirit, a "single cell."  A cell is able to divide itself thru a process called "Binary Fission."  Since God created "Binary Fission," it's not difficult to comprehend that God can "divide" himself and send a piece of his DNA (the Holy Spirit) into the hearts and minds of his children.

Thus, Jesus was the first-born of many (Romans 8:29) and like every child of God after him, has God's "DNA" (the Holy Spirit).  Which is why Jesus said, "I and my Father are one." (John 10:29)

At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord and Savior; who showed us that the only way to God is through Spiritual birth. 

It's not believing in Jesus or the trinity (God in three persons) that separates God's children from the rest of the world, it's the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.  It is the Holy Spirit that testifies to God's existence, and confirms that we are a child of God.  Without the Spirit of God, we are not God's children.

The birth of Jesus, serves as a reminder that to see or enter the kingdom, we must be born again.

Until you're reborn Spiritually...nothing else matters.

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