{"id":1041,"date":"2001-12-27T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2001-12-27T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qwhat-child-is-thisq-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-01T04:34:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T04:34:37","slug":"december-qwhat-child-is-thisq-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qwhat-child-is-thisq-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Child Is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Child is this, who, laid to rest, on Mary\u2019s lap is sleeping?<\/em><\/p>\n

Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, while shepherds watch are keeping? <\/em><\/p>\n

Why lies He in such mean estate where ox and ass are feeding? <\/em><\/p>\n

Good Christian, fear\u2014for sinners here the silent Word is pleading. <\/em><\/p>\n

So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh\u2014come, rich and poor, to own Him; <\/em><\/p>\n

The King of Kings salvation brings\u2014let loving hearts enthrone Him.<\/em><\/p>\n

English melody, fifteenth century<\/p>\n

It has always been one of the striking testimonials of Christianity that Jesus Christ came quietly into this world and left the same way.\u00a0 Though he ascended to heaven while five hundred watched, when His mortal put back on immortality, He simply sat up inside a tomb, quietly put His clothes aside and walked out without audience.\u00a0 At His birth, although angels sang to shepherds on far away hills, when the Babe cried and first breathed terrestrial air, only cattle turned their heads in witness.\u00a0 The gospel account simply fits with the reality that we know of this world.<\/p>\n

A human author, writing strictly on his own initiative, would characteristically tend to describe such a momentous and amazing event in an expansive, detailed, and elaborate manner.\u00a0 But not the apostle Matthew.\u00a0 He does relate additional circumstances surrounding the virgin birth, but the basic fact is stated in one simple sentence: \u201cAfter His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

With the gospel writers, we are not to take the miraculous conception of Jesus by the Holy Spirit in any other way but matter of fact.\u00a0 They don\u2019t ask us to.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have to give an explanation of the miracle, we only have to believe it or reject it.\u00a0 Is it any less reasonable than the alternatives we are offered?<\/p>\n

For example, the Romans believed that Zeus impregnated Semele without contact and that she conceived Dionysus, lord of the earth.\u00a0 The Babylonians believed that Tammuz (see Ezek. 8:14) was conceived in the priestess Semiramis by a sunbeam.\u00a0 In an ancient Sumerian\/Accadian story inscribed on a wall Tukulti II (890-884 B.C.) told how the gods created him in the womb of his mother.\u00a0 It was even claimed that the goddess of procreation superintended the conception of King Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.).\u00a0 At the conception of Buddha, his mother supposedly saw a great white elephant enter her belly.\u00a0 Hinduism has claimed that the divine Vishnu, after reincarnations as a fish, tortoise, boar, and lion, descended into the womb of Devaki and was born as her son Krishna.\u00a0 There is even a legend that Alexander the Great was virgin born by the power of Zeus through a snake that impregnated his mother, Olympias.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

The biblical account is above all such make-believe.\u00a0 Nothing about Christ\u2019s incarnation violates what we know of this world.\u00a0 It only asks us to accept that the Creator of the world can enter and leave it when He wants and as calmly as He wants.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t insult us with tortoises or sunbeams in the womb.\u00a0 It is not God who is unreasonable in the Christmas story, it is man with his selfish nature and bent toward the fantastic.\u00a0 As Pascal wrote, \u201cThe incredulous are the most credulous.\u00a0 They believe in Vespasian\u2019s miracles only to disbelieve in those of Moses.\u201d3<\/sup> Or, as Chesterton noted, \u201cTake away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.\u201d4<\/sup><\/p>\n

We might say that God has asked us to accept a balance of reality in the world into which the incarnation fits perfectly well.\u00a0 God has placed us in a middle world between the telescope and the microscope.\u00a0 We can ascend into the starry heavens until we are overwhelmed by the size and awesomeness of space itself.\u00a0 Or we can descend into the microcosms of the cells and atoms only to find smaller worlds revolving in their own atmospheres.\u00a0 Man was placed between those two extremes at the center of God\u2019s creative process so that we might be in a place to receive God\u2019s revelation with a reasonable faith that fits with reality.\u00a0 William Lane Craig responded to a question concerning the impossibility of miracles by saying, \u201cOnly if you believe that God does not exist!\u00a0 Then I would agree\u2014the miraculous would be absurd.\u00a0 But if there is a Creator who designed and brought the universe into being, who sustains its existence moment by moment, who is responsible for the very natural laws that govern the physical world, then certainly it\u2019s rational to believe that the miraculous is possible.\u201d5<\/sup> The greatest revelation was when God became man, coming into the center of His creation, to reveal Who and What is the reason for our existence.<\/p>\n

We learn in the Scriptures that God is both transcendent and immanent.\u00a0 God is transcendent in that He is totally separate, apart from and above His creation.\u00a0 Nicholas of Cusa\u00a0 said, \u201cGod is the greatest possible circle with the smallest possible curvature.\u201d6<\/sup> He is not as transcendent as the existentialist and agnostic would have us think.\u00a0 He is willing to reveal Himself and has done so in many ways, coming into the center of His world with voice, letter and in person.\u00a0 God is immanent in that He is close to and everywhere present in His creation.\u00a0 But He is not as immanent as the pantheists and new-age thinkers would have us believe.\u00a0 He does not consist of the material universe and cannot be found present in its parts.\u00a0 Rather, as before, He must come into the world in order for us to know Him.\u00a0 \u201cGod is a person and he made us as persons in his likeness.\u00a0 Because we are persons and he is a personal God, we have the capacity to worship him and to know him and to love him.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n

Though it is true that in our day we must try the miraculous spirits to see whether they are of God, in that day God had prepared the world for the greatest of miracles.\u00a0 Sir William Ramsay once wrote of the apostle Paul\u2019s miraculous work:<\/p>\n

That Paul believed himself to be the recipient of direct revelations from God, to be guided and controlled in his plans by direct interposition of the Holy Spirit, to be enabled by the Divine power to move the forces of nature in a way that ordinary men cannot, is involved in this narrative (Acts 14).\u00a0 You must make up your own minds to accept or to reject it; but you cannot cut out the marvelous from the rest, nor can you believe that either Paul or this writer was a mere victim of hallucinations.\u00a0 To the men of that age only what was guaranteed by marvelous accompaniments was true.8<\/sup><\/p>\n

We have spent much time today unmasking false miracles and deceptive claims to divine authority.\u00a0 The Christian spends too much of his time answering all the counterfeits while the counterfeits only have to answer Christianity.\u00a0 But we can never forget that the miracle of the incarnation, with all of its revealed facts, was miraculous!\u00a0 The transcendent God became immanent within our world!<\/p>\n

And this brings us back to the Christmas story.\u00a0 It is that wonderful record of a mighty God overshadowing a virgin Mary, sending angels to sing in concert to shepherds and throwing a star in the sky for wise men to see.\u00a0 That same God came quietly into our world among the mud of a stable floor and the smells and sounds of common herds.\u00a0 He came as an infant who needed to be nursed and protected from his enemies.\u00a0 He was the perfect revelation of a transcendent, immanent God.\u00a0 There was enough light to lighten the willing and enough mystery to keep them in awe.\u00a0 Yet there was enough mystery to hinder the unwilling and enough light to show them God\u2019s law.\u00a0 It was the perfect form for man to receive.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a song in the air! There\u2019s a star in the sky!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a mother\u2019s deep prayer and a baby\u2019s low cry!<\/p>\n

And the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,<\/p>\n

For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a tumult of joy O\u2019er the wonderful birth,<\/p>\n

For the Virgin\u2019s sweet Boy is the Lord of the earth.<\/p>\n

Ay! The star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,<\/p>\n

For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!<\/p>\n

In the light of that star lie the ages impearled,<\/p>\n

And that song from afar has swept over the world.<\/p>\n

Every hearth is aflame and the beautiful sing,<\/p>\n

In the homes of the nations that Jesus is King!<\/p>\n

We rejoice in the light, and we echo the song<\/p>\n

That comes down thru the night from the heavenly throng.<\/p>\n

Ay! We shout to the lovely evangel they bring,<\/p>\n

And we greet in His cradle our Savior and King!9<\/sup><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/address>\n
1. John MacArthur, God in the Manger <\/em> (Nashville: W Publishing Group, 2001) 4-5.<\/address>\n
2. John MacArthur, The MacArthur New Testament Commentary<\/em>, Vol I (Chicago: Moody Press, 1985) 12.<\/address>\n
3. Blaise Pascal, Pensees <\/em>(London: Penguin Classics, 1966) 100.<\/address>\n
4. G.K. Chesterton, Heretics <\/em>(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2000) 49.<\/address>\n
5. Interview with Lee Stroble, The Case For Faith <\/em>(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000) 61.<\/address>\n
6. Quoted by Norman Geisler, Philosophy of Religion<\/em> (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974) 48.<\/address>\n
7. Robert Wenz, Room For God? <\/em>(Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker Books, 1994) 162.<\/address>\n
8. William Ramsay, St. Paul:\u00a0 The Traveller and the Roman Citizen <\/em>(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1962) 87.<\/address>\n
9. Josiah G. Holland, There\u2019s A Song In The Air!<\/em><\/address>\n
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