Yes it is humbling to recognize Jesus' coming to be a suffering servant on our behalf.
And on top of this, thinking on a reality of the literal Creator of galaxies. Our Creator. Of everything. I am trying to escape the Christmas rhetoric and tradition that sometimes clouds my mind from meaningful reflection upon the truth that there is a literal God who created all we know. God is real. And in the spirit of this season, He reversed religion as usual of mankind reaching and striving and earning favor to some deity of imagination and who instead came to us.
Meditating on the reality of our Triune God in and of itself is mind boggling and humbling. The span of our universe and our planet being less than a grain of sand in a desert comparatively begs our being dumbfounded, humble and silent before a God so Great and Powerful as He. And He came. Why are we as influencers so apt to fanciful sidebar impressions when we own dogma in God's Word that, when truly thought thru and meditated upon should be as if to ruin us from self reflection to instead cause us to want to know Him more.
"For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. Colossians." 1:16
Don't try to make something worse than it is for emotional impact.
Teach the truth not a lie.
Read your Bible Scott, it is very clear that Joseph married Mary:
Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Mat 1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Mat 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Mat 1:24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Mat 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
Assuming that you believe Mary was a mother from the point of conception forward, then surely you would agree that she was, in fact, an unwed mother for a time.
You also seem to have missed this from the same essay: "The Creator of galaxies became an infant, completely dependent on a young mother and her carpenter husband."
That being said, thanks for helping me clarify with new wording.
Thanks Scott, glad to see you are considering changing the wording for it certainly does not conform to scripture.
I don't think that anyone is a mother who has not given birth. Ask any woman who has had a miscarriage, she knows she is not a mother.
However, Elizabeth did say: "And she spoke with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? " Luke 1:42-43
But Mary was never an unmarried Mother in the modern sense of the term.
When Joseph married Mary is not clear from scripture, but it seems to have been very early on, as surely Mary would have told Joseph about the Angel visiting her as soon as it occurred?!
How long after this did Joseph get his visit from the Angel? We are not told but it would no doubt have also been very soon.
Luke tells us that Mary went to see Elizabeth immediately after the Angel visited her, and stayed there for three months, but we are not told by Luke anything about Joseph, that is left to Matthew's gospel.
So we don't know when Mary and Joseph were married, it could have been after she left Elizabeth, just before the birth of John the Baptist, or it could have been before she went to see Elizabeth.
"The Creator of galaxies became an infant."
Yes it is humbling to recognize Jesus' coming to be a suffering servant on our behalf.
And on top of this, thinking on a reality of the literal Creator of galaxies. Our Creator. Of everything. I am trying to escape the Christmas rhetoric and tradition that sometimes clouds my mind from meaningful reflection upon the truth that there is a literal God who created all we know. God is real. And in the spirit of this season, He reversed religion as usual of mankind reaching and striving and earning favor to some deity of imagination and who instead came to us.
Meditating on the reality of our Triune God in and of itself is mind boggling and humbling. The span of our universe and our planet being less than a grain of sand in a desert comparatively begs our being dumbfounded, humble and silent before a God so Great and Powerful as He. And He came. Why are we as influencers so apt to fanciful sidebar impressions when we own dogma in God's Word that, when truly thought thru and meditated upon should be as if to ruin us from self reflection to instead cause us to want to know Him more.
"For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. Colossians." 1:16
Mary was not an unwed mother.
Don't try to make something worse than it is for emotional impact.
Teach the truth not a lie.
Read your Bible Scott, it is very clear that Joseph married Mary:
Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Mat 1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Mat 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Mat 1:24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Mat 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
Assuming that you believe Mary was a mother from the point of conception forward, then surely you would agree that she was, in fact, an unwed mother for a time.
You also seem to have missed this from the same essay: "The Creator of galaxies became an infant, completely dependent on a young mother and her carpenter husband."
That being said, thanks for helping me clarify with new wording.
Thanks Scott, glad to see you are considering changing the wording for it certainly does not conform to scripture.
I don't think that anyone is a mother who has not given birth. Ask any woman who has had a miscarriage, she knows she is not a mother.
However, Elizabeth did say: "And she spoke with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? " Luke 1:42-43
But Mary was never an unmarried Mother in the modern sense of the term.
When Joseph married Mary is not clear from scripture, but it seems to have been very early on, as surely Mary would have told Joseph about the Angel visiting her as soon as it occurred?!
How long after this did Joseph get his visit from the Angel? We are not told but it would no doubt have also been very soon.
Luke tells us that Mary went to see Elizabeth immediately after the Angel visited her, and stayed there for three months, but we are not told by Luke anything about Joseph, that is left to Matthew's gospel.
So we don't know when Mary and Joseph were married, it could have been after she left Elizabeth, just before the birth of John the Baptist, or it could have been before she went to see Elizabeth.
For your consideration, since you seem to be a proof text kind of guy.
David speaks of how God knit him together in his mother's womb, suggesting that the mother/child bond began at conception, not birth (Psalm 139:13).
Also Isaiah 49:1: "The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name."
Likewise, many months before Jesus was born, Elizabeth referred to Mary as "the mother of my Lord" (Luke 1:43).