According to the story, an invisible space visitor from heaven - aka the invisible Holy Ghost/invisible God the Father/whoever fathered Jesus Christ.
If an invisible Holy Ghost/invisible God the Father is the father, why didn't God just allow Jesus to appear instantly in the baby crib at Bethlehem? Why was Mary needed at all to carry Jesus for nine months?
If an invisible Father is the Dad, why not an invisible mother too?
That could explain the actual results (my view) more clearly than saying Jesus is the product of an invisible Holy Ghost/invisible God the Father from somewhere and a very visible mother, Mary from Nazareth.
Apparently God had a lot of experience creating people out of nothing but clay and a rib (Adam and Eve) so God could easily have bypassed Mary and created Jesus Christ instantly from nothing, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck or a variation of the Holodeck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbracadabraIt's also likely carpenter Joseph would have felt better about what happened if Mary was not pregnant due to an invisible, unnamed Holy Ghost/invisible God from outer space too.
Both Mary and Joseph could have fulfilled their roles as adopted parents for Jesus Christ.
Mary wasn't really needed for the birth of Christ at all?
If an invisible Dad could do it, so could an invisible Mom too?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(magic)
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/http://www.beliefnet.com/God tried that invisible father and mother business and that gave birth to the holy ghost which was also invisible. It would have been awkward to try to nail an invisible Christ on the cross because all anybody would see would be the nails. Also an invisible Christ would have scared people and that would upset the applecart.
Of course there were other experiments such as the holy pussycat, the holy goldfish, the holy gorilla (very impressive but not appropriate) and a concoction that finally became the abominable snowman. But the Christ we know seemed the simplest solution. Everybody wondered why Christ had eyelets in his palms and feet but in the end the nails went in easily and painlessly and the mystery was solved. Mary, it seemed, was quite agreeable to spend a passionate night with God.
07 Sep 2010, 10:42 am
