Dear Editor,

This is a response to my friend Trevor Thomas’ article at americanthinker.com today, “God’s Christmas Gift”:

C.S. Lewis once wrote, “And it is this, I believe, that most modern Christians need to be reminded of. It seems to me that I seldom meet any strong or exultant sense of the continued, never-to-be-abandoned, Humanity of Christ in glory, in eternity. We stress the Humanity too exclusively at Christmas, and the Deity too exclusively after the Resurrection; almost as if Christ once became a man and then presently reverted to being simply God. We think of the Resurrection and Ascension (rightly) as great acts of God; less often as the triumph of Man. The ancient interpretation of Psalm 8, however arrived at, is a cheering corrective. Nor, on further consideration, is the analogy of humanity’s place in the universe (its greatness and littleness, its humble origins and — even on the natural level — amazing destiny) to the humiliation and victories of Christ, really strained and far-fetched At least it does not seem so to me.” Second Meanings in the Psalms

What joy we live in celebrating the birth of Second Person of the Trinity, “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:”! (Phil 2:6-7, KJV).

First and foremost, Jesus came “to be” and, in thirty years and nine months, he grew and completed all righteousness — “wisdom, favor, and stature with God” — at his baptism thus fulfilling “the Divine Imperative” that was immediately celebrated by the Godhead. – Mt 3:15, Lk 2:40-52, Heb 5:7-9, Gen 1:26, Mt 3:16-17, Heb 5:5-6, 10

Jesus’ subsequent ministry of three years proliferated godliness through Golgotha to this very moment by God’s revelations to him gloriously realizing absolute holiness in his body of flesh exactly as he taught. – Jn 5:17-34, 8:28-32, Mt 11:25-30, 24:34-36, Jn 6:51, 17:1-3, 19, 26, 12:27-33, 47-50, I Jn 4:14-18 That proliferation persists throughout eternity, “O righteous Father, the world has not known thee; but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me. I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” – Jn 17:26, Eph 3:7-12 Jesus set the Eternal Agenda in his body of flesh! Jesus is God’s Elect! – Lk 9:28-36

Jesus countered Shakespeare’s Hamlet’s “or not to be” by living Solomon’s prophecy in Eccl 11:5 to the utmost, “As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.” Thus, Jesus’ response in Jn 6:27-28 to the Jews’ query, “What must we do, to be doing the work of God? This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” Jesus’ growth matters unto realizing God’s purpose in his body of flesh by always obediently, revealing God’s will. – Mt 11:20-25, Jn 12:20-25, Heb 2:9-10, Jn 1:9-10, Eph 1:9-10, Mt 5:3-12, 43-48, Jn 17:5, Heb 10:4-21, Jn 10:17-18 It is a serious error to diminish the totality of Jesus’ Incarnation from conception to ascension to this exact moment consistent with Lewis’ teaching!

Jesus did not curse God on Golgotha as Satan prophesied in Job 2:4-5 but instead, asks the ultimate question that perfects the Great Commandment completing God’s purpose in his body of flesh after having atoned for his own murder. – Job 2:4-5, Lk 23:34, Mt 27:45-46, Jn 19:30, Lk 23:46, Heb 12:1-2, Job 8:19 Jesus answers Job’s question, “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. … Truly I know it is so: But how can a man be just before God?” – Job 8:20, 9:1

“Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.” – Heb 2:14-15, Gen 3:1-15, Mt 3:15-17, 4:1-11, Jn 1:29, 36, Heb 4:14-15, 9:14-15, Mt 19:30, Rev 1:4-8 Jesus’ belief in God always trumped “the Pretenders’ belief in other gods”! – Mt 2:16-20, 11:12, Jn 10:30-39, Mt 27:17-44, Jn 19:1-15 Jesus’ death proved his humanity was and remains one with God always in God’s judgment on sin as expressed in his words of spirit and life on Golgotha.-Rom 5:1-21, 3:34-36, Gal 2:19-21, Jn 6:63, Heb 1:1-4, Mk 12:29-31 Jesus upheld God’s “Paradigm & Crucible of Freedom & Uniqueness.”

In thirty-three years and nine months, Jesus the Christ became God’s Eternal Fountain of Youth! – Isaiah 7:14, Heb 7:14-28, Jn 4:14, 14:6-11, 18-20, 17:20-24, 7:37-38, Isaiah 9:6-7 – God’s Eternal Home in his body of flesh!-Ps 90:1, Heb 3:1-6, Jn 14:23, 1-4, Lk 24:25-31, 36-49 Jesus is the ultimate revelation of the Father lived! – Jn 1:14-18, 15:14-18, Mt 11:25-27, 28:18-20, 18:20, Acts 4:12, 13:38-41, 17:30-31

William M. Yavelak

Belmont