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Baby, Baby!

12/24/2013

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PictureGeburt Christi by Sint Jans
If people even connect Christmas with Christ, it is often focused on the baby. The baby gives us the warm and fuzzies. We imagine a cute and most of all, clean mother and child. Perhaps we should sing more Justin Bieber, "Baby, baby, baby, Oh!" 

No! We should never sing more Bieber! 

But what if baby Jesus is not the actual focus of Scripture, not even in the birth narratives? 

Like the picture here, do we often apply our own cultural values to the biblical story instead of seeing the cultural values already at play in the biblical narrative. Art often shows this tendency throughout the centuries. But what if the birth narratives have a greater purpose than a baby?


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