God impregnated Mary with the treasure chest that carried the knowledge of God from heaven to earth. She was the treasure chest of the treasure chest. The value of the treasure required the purity of virginity to carry it. Nothing less would do. She lost her virginity to the one true God. With respect to other gods, she was a virgin.
Pregnant by the Word of God
“We have been made pregnant by the knowledge of God.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14)”
Like foolish children, Adam and Eve had run away from their home with God in paradise and took us with them into godlessness. Godlessness sucks. We needed help. So the Son of God dove into godlessness after us to rescue us. He did not dispatch his subordinates. He did not send his flunkies. He came to our rescue himself.
To rescue us from godlessness, God decided to put us in possession of an important piece of the truth so its light could illuminate the darkness to make the escape route from godlessness to paradise visible. The job was revelation. The job was apocalypse.
The yeast of divinity was introduced to the mud of humanity to leaven the mud with the knowledge of God. God paid us a visit to impregnate us with the knowledge of God.
How was this accomplished? How were we "knocked up" by the knowledge of God? The job was given to the Word of God, the second person of the most Holy Trinity (John 1:1-5).
The process of insemination consisted of three steps (Matthew 13:31-32) (Mark 4:1-32).
- The message was composed
- It was delivered to us and
- A guarantee of its genuineness was created to verify the truth of the message
STEP 1: THE MESSAGE IS COMPOSED
God composed a simple message: Jesus is the God who loves us dearly. Yet, it is a message that transformed the world.
STEP 2: THE MESSAGE IS DELIVERED
At Bethlehem, the Son of God, the king of the universe, exchanged the penthouse of heaven for the basement of humanity. He did not send his subordinates to do the job. He did not send his flunkies. The job was so important that He did it himself. The God who fashioned us out of the mud with his hands put himself into the hands of the mud to reveal to the mud the sweetness of paradise. The yeast of divinity came to leaven the mud of humanity. How? With a love note. At Bethlehem, the Son of God delivered a love note to us. Imagine - a love note from God to us! It was not an ordinary love note. It was unique. It was not words written on dead paper. It was the very Word of God written on life itself. The love note lived and breathed. It was alive. It came in the form of a baby born in the humblest of circumstances.
Step 3: A Guarantee of the Genuineness of the Message is Given to us
To determine whether the love note was genuine or counterfeit, God let us put the love note to the test. We tortured and killed the love note. He suffered and died. This was the test. This was the evil baptism into which we immersed him. What was the result of the test? He did not stay dead and he did not stop loving us. That he did not stay dead is the proof that Jesus is God. That he did not stop loving us is the proof that divinity is love. The test revealed that the love note is indestructible.
The Son of God has planted the seed of the knowledge of God within us. We are pregnant with the knowledge of God. Jesus is the God who loves us. He is the sweetness of paradise. Rational people seek the sweetness of paradise. It would be crazy to do otherwise.
Bringing the Confusion to an End
Many false, inaccurate and conflicting pictures of the nature of God circulate through the minds of the children of Adam and Eve. The multiplicity of pictures creates confusion. “This is God” some say as they point to their favorite picture of God. Others point to a different picture and say, “No, this is God.” The controversy goes on ad infinitum.
Because of the confusion, the most Holy Trinity desired to set the record straight once and forever. They decided to clear the air. They decided to give us the gift of the definitive picture of the nature of God. Their representation of the nature of God can be thought of as a self-portrait or an autobiography. The fidelity of their representation to God is unmatched by any representation made by human hands. They gave us the definitive representation of the nature of God by combining the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.
We tortured and killed him. He suffered and died. Yet, he did not stay dead and he did not stop loving us. That he did not stay dead is the proof that Jesus is God. That he did not stop loving us is the proof that divinity is love.
Transporting the Knowledge of God from Heaven to Earth
“The yeast of divinity came to leaven the mud of humanity with the knowledge of God”
The knowledge of God, it was decided, would be transported from heaven to earth and into the hands of the children of Adam and Eve.
The knowledge of God is the treasure in the treasure chest of Christianity.
Arising from this decision was the question, ‘what package would be appropriate to hold and carry the knowledge of God during its journey?’. Ordinarily, to hold and carry knowledge, knowledge is put into a book or into some other traditional repository of knowledge. However, not in this case. The knowledge of God was so valuable that no ordinary, conventional, no-frills, humdrum repository would have been suitable. A package equal in dignity to its cargo was desired.
Indeed, in this case, a treasure chest was needed because the knowledge of God is the most precious of treasures.
Therefore, into an extraordinary treasure chest, the knowledge of God was poured. The treasure chest was unique. It lived and breathed and had its own exalted being. Into Jesus, the knowledge of God was poured. During His Visit to us, the Son of God shared the treasure with us. He made us rich.
“When the Church shares the knowledge of God with us, the Church makes us rich. The knowledge of God is the most precious of treasures.”
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Why did the Son of God become flesh?
God wanted to tell us something. God had something important to tell the children of Adam and Eve.
"We want to tell the children of Adam and Eve that God loves them dearly", God announced to the heavenly host. What language shall we use? Shall we communicate with them in Russian? in English? in Mandarin Chinese? in Spanish? in Greek? in Aramaic?
What is the best way to communicate the message? How can we convey the message so that none of its meaning gets lost.
Since the confounding of languages that took place at Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), no universal language exists that they all understand.
Or is there?
Did one universal language survive the confounding of languages that took place at Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)?
Indeed, one did.
The universal language that survived the confounding of languages that took place at Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is our native tongue. All of the children of Adam and Eve understand it without exception. Its meaning is unmistakable. It is the language of pain and suffering. The language of pain and suffering conveys unambiguous meaning.
The Son of God took flesh so God could communicate with us unambiguously in our native tongue. He did not use the language of angels; he used the language of the mud.
The God who fashioned us out of the mud with his hands put himself into the hands of the mud to reveal to the mud the sweetness of paradise. The yeast of divinity came to leaven the mud of humanity with the knowledge of God.
God let us pass him through the gauntlet of pain and suffering so we would see what emerged on the other side. God let us baptize him in evil so we would see what emerged. God let us put him through the test so we would see the results.
We tortured and killed him. He suffered and died. This was the gauntlet. This was the baptism. This was the test.
Yet, he did not stay dead and he did not stop loving us. These are the facts that emerged on the other side. These are the results.
Therefore, to fairly and accurately represent the message that God conveyed to us requires two components not one. We tortured and killed him. He suffered and died. This is the first component. This is why the Son of God became flesh. Yet, he did not stay dead and he did not stop loving us. That he did not stay dead is proof that Jesus is God. That he did not stop loving us is proof that divinity is love.
The first component of the message was necessary in order to give us the proof. No pain and suffering; no proof.
On the canvas of Calvary in the pigments of pain and suffering, the Son of God painted a self-portrait of the nature of God. No other representation made by human hands matches the fidelity of the self-portrait.