I believe in
Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
born of the Virgin Mary
“The Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”
Isaiah 7:14
“This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: his mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. ”
Matthew 1:18
Clues/problems
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head...”
Genesis 3:15
“Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.. ” Psalm 51:5
“The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit” 1 Corinthians 15:45
That God is able to be present and active as the Wholly Other, and is present and active only because he is the Wholly Other, is, I believe, the primary, central and pivotal mystery of biblical revelation and of the Jewish/Christian faith. There is no mystery more remarkable or more fundamental. It is the Mystery.
To state this mystery more philosophically: While God, in his complete otherness, is ontologically distinct from the created order, and thus from all other beings, yet he is able to bring into existence, be present to, and act within the created order… Moreover, he is able to do so, in his wholly otherness, without forfeiting his wholly otherness in so doing.
Thomas G. Weinandy
Jesus
Normal
New
Mary
Holy Spirit