While Advent is a season of joy and anticipation, it is also rife with materialism and cynicism: a virgin impregnated by a god? Did not Zeus do likewise? And Jesus, the Son of God, is that not like the countless demi-gods throughout Greek Mythology? Did shepherds and Magi, bearing gifts, follow a star illuminating the newborn king’s birthplace on that silent night two millenniums ago?
It seems preposterous. Ridiculous even. Yet the Nativity is recounted in the opening chapters of Luke’s Gospel. If the Catechism is correct, “God inspired the human authors of the sacred books,” which “teach the truth,” and further emphasizes, “God is the author of Sacred Scripture.”
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