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I affirm the virgin birth.
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Christmas carols. Again, you can also go through and see objections that need to be answered, even the one that says Mary should have aborted.
Finally, he does have an appendix for those who are interested, on the Marian dogmas, particularly perpetual virginity. Putman walks a fine line here as he wants to make sure he is charitable to scholars who are of a different persuasion than he is whom he has learned much from. I hope that those who read through such a section, like Roman Catholics and Orthodox, will walk away saying that their position was treated fairly and even though they don’t agree with Putman, that he made his case and respected theirs.
Putman’s book is a delightful tour through the Gospels and through church history. If you want to bless your Christmas celebrations, get this book. Go through it. If children are old enough to understand the terms about virginity and other such ideas, have them join in. If you want to establish a new Christmas tradition, then let it be this one.
And on a side note, Putman is also definitely right about one other thing. Die Hard is indeed a Christmas movie.
In Christ,
Nick Peters
(And I affirm the virgin birth)
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Christmas carols. Again, you can also go through and see objections that need to be answered, even the one that says Mary should have aborted.
Finally, he does have an appendix for those who are interested, on the Marian dogmas, particularly perpetual virginity. Putman walks a fine line here as he wants to make sure he is charitable to scholars who are of a different persuasion than he is whom he has learned much from. I hope that those who read through such a section, like Roman Catholics and Orthodox, will walk away saying that their position was treated fairly and even though they don’t agree with Putman, that he made his case and respected theirs.
Putman’s book is a delightful tour through the Gospels and through church history. If you want to bless your Christmas celebrations, get this book. Go through it. If children are old enough to understand the terms about virginity and other such ideas, have them join in. If you want to establish a new Christmas tradition, then let it be this one.
And on a side note, Putman is also definitely right about one other thing. Die Hard is indeed a Christmas movie.
In Christ,
Nick Peters
(And I affirm the virgin birth)
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