Parallels in Christmas

 Today we hear about an alternative for the evolutionary concept as “Parallel Universe”, where did the atom come from? And the answer most probably will be, “From some other planet”.

Parallels in our life gives us an understanding about the things which we can relate to. Note Parallels are not comparisons like the Israelites who complain to God for Mean, Fish, cucumbers,  melons, leeks, onions and garlic. 

Exodus 16:3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”


Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

But, even if they have to compare, they should look at God and say confidently like David, in 1 Samuel 17:37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”

Virgin Birth:

The Virgin Birth: Plausible, if God Exists

The Apostles’ Creed, an early creed of the Christian faith, affirms that Jesus Christ “was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary.” If this belief is true, it means that Jesus’ entrance into human history isn’t just a tad different, but completely unique.

We can’t, of course, make the same kind of historical argument for the virgin birth that we can make for the resurrection. In the case of the resurrection, numerous eyewitnesses saw Jesus die and also later saw Him come back from the dead. But no eyewitness can attest to how Mary became pregnant. If Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, that event was private.

Atheists, of course, declare it to be a “biological impossibility” for a virgin woman to give birth. In one sense they’re correct: humans, like other mammals, are normally incapable of parthenogenesis (a word that derives from Greek words meaning “virgin” and “birth”). But in another sense they’re completely wrong.

Affirming the virgin birth of Christ as “miraculous” does not mean having to believe that the laws of nature have been broken or violated. Just because a virgin birth is not naturally possible doesn’t mean we rule out the possibility of there being a God not bound by the laws of nature.

Herod’s brutal Murder:

Herod’s brutal order to “kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under” (2:16) parallels the order of Pharaoh, “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile” (Ex 1:22). The similarity is not lost on Matthew. Through these events in his early life, Jesus is a new Moses, prepared in Egypt to lead his people into the Promised Land and thus to fulfill the blessings of Abraham.