from Religulous

Saw Religulous with my oldest teenage son a few months ago, and I should have blogged it in myblogs about movies by now (if I haven't already - I can never remember these things - at the age of 103 thigns tend to slip your mind!) but I remember one thing that the narrator (what's his name again?) that comes back to me at this Christmas season - he

was torqued that not all four gospels mentioned the virgin birth - that only two of them did - he thought that would be a pretty important point that would have merited mention in ALL the gospels.

His argument would be true, on human terms, if the things written down were what the humans wanted to write, irrespective and independent of Divine inspiration. The point of the Bible being

"God-breathed"

is that God inspired ("inspired" means "breathed-into" by the way!) these writings. The Virgin Birth IS important, but he didn't need to hammer the point home - so he mentioned it enough to be noticed and then the other gospels covered other aspects.

The point is - all the Gospels cover the story, but at slightly different angles - some have the same situations in them, some have situations that aren't in others, some have details that are in some but not others - all together they give the full picture.

So, to the narrator it might be silly not to have it in all four, but to others of us, it is just right!!