IT is a great pity that a truth so wonderful and mysterious as the Virgin Birth of Christ should have become the subject of theological controversy and often accompanied with unchristian bitterness in these days. Unbelievers have always objected to what Scripture tells us as to our Lord’s birth, but it has remained for men bearing the name of Christ to reject, and even ridicule, it in our day. Yet we need to remember that if our Lord Jesus Christ was not miraculously born of a virgin, having no human father, He was not supernatural at all, but simply a man endowed with special spiritual insight, and this, of course, is what the Modernists believe Him to have been. But this is not the Christ of Scripture, for Jesus was not simply a great master teacher. He is, as His name implies, Jehovah, the Saviour.
“He has come! the Christ of God; —
Left for us His glad abode,
Stooping from His throne of bliss.
To this darksome wilderness.
Unto us a Child is born!
Ne’er has earth beheld a morn,
Among all the morns of time.
Half so glorious in its prime.
Unto us a Son is given!
He has come from God’s own heaven;
Bringing with him from above.
Holy peace and holy love.”
―Horatius Bonar