A Child is born in
Bethlehem
And joyful is
Jerusalem.
He lies within a
lowly stall,
The King who reigneth
over all.
Sprung from no mortal
father, He
Is born of pure
virginity.
Unwounded by the
serpent’s tooth,
He comes to us a man
in sooth.
Like to the flesh man
dwelleth in,
But all unlike to man
in sin.
That He might bring
our mortal race
Back to the image of
His face.
A Child is born in
Bethlehem,
And joyful is
Jerusalem.
Now upon this, His
natal day,
Bless we our infant
Lord alway.
Possible 14th Century
with Czech origins.
A
key point of the Gospel is the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. The fact the He
was born of a virgin is miraculous and lends credence to His claims to be God.
Being born of a virgin made Him sinless and capable of being our sacrifice for
sin. Without this reality, Jesus is just as CS Lewis said, “He would either be
a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else
he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was,
and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse…. You can shut Him
up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at
His feet and call Him Lord and God.”
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