Biblical Birth Narratives Are Weird And Incredible. We Can Stop Sanitizing Them.

Washington Post ^ | December 24, 2015 | W. David O. Taylor

[tbpiper]

Well said, thank you. What a grand mystery it is! It’s like we are two dimensional creatures trying to understand a cube. Merry Christmas JAKraig.

[Mrs. Don-o]

No.

What the???

discussion on the incarnation, which involved Jesus being born of Blessed Mary, a human person (NOT a Divine Person).

She is not Divine, repeat, not member of the Trinity.

Any other questions?

[LadyDoc]

Infertility, divorce, shame, mass murder, astrologers, injustice and doubt: these are a few of the topics that appear in the birth narratives of Matthew and Luke, but it is unlikely that they will feature in many of the sermons or pageants at our churches during this season of the year.

He is going to the wrong church.

Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Visitation (infertility of Elizabeth), the feast of the Holy Innocents (mass murder), shame and divorce The feast of St Joseph...Astrologers/pagans (Epiphany). As for doubt, we have the feast of St Thomas the Apostle.

[5thGenTexan]

Just going off of what you bolded and underlined in your post.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Sorry, I may not have expressed myself very clearly. That happens.

I meant that here's the Trinity (Father-Son-HolySpirit), and (since we're talking precisely about the Incarnation) here's also Mary, not some kind of quasi-goddess but a human person, a person redeemed by Christ her Savior, a/k/a/ the handmaid of the Lord, overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, mother of the Incarnate Word --- isn't that about as Trinitarian as you can get?

Merry Christmas+1, 5thGenTexan!