Sometimes stories are so familiar, we forget how odd they are. For Christians the nativity stories are a prime example. If you were God and you wanted to call people into a new relationship, how would you do it? I’m not sure what I would do, but I don’t think becoming a baby born to […]
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How Can This Be? Jesus’ Birth
One of the claims Christians make about Jesus is that he, as the Apostle’s Creed says, “was born of the Virgin Mary”. Both Nativity stories, Matthew and Luke, make this claim. People who want to defend the faith and debunk the faith write about this topic. Unfortunately people on all sides of the issue are prone to wonder […]
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