God The Baby

By Donovan Ward

The incarnation of the Son of God is one of the greatest of the mysteries of God ever to be revealed. Nothing in the whole universe was, is, and shall be as astonishing as God, Yahweh, the Almighty God Himself becoming a man. The incarnation was the preparation for His brutal and ignominious death. He died the death that I should have died. He died the death to conquer death itself. He could have entered into this world as a fully grown man, but chose to identify with us in our very nature, flesh and blood, through human reproduction, yet without sin. He chose a woman named Mary to carry out His greatest creative act ever in her womb as He created a human nature and added it to His divine nature, resulting in two natures united in one person. God himself grew for nine months in her womb. His birth and growth were natural, but nonetheless mystifying. How could God become a man, many asked as their thinking became overwhelmingly exhausted by the depth of its mystery. God becoming a baby, helpless, speechless and totally dependent on His mother, yet in its mystery, He was the very One who gave and sustained Mary into being as she provided for His mysterious being, as God the baby. As you read this book, the mystery of the incarnation of God the baby is not for you to understand but for you to see what God (The Father) had done for you to become like the very One (His Son) who became a baby for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Nov 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9780228866114

Donovan Ward

Donovan Ward has been a devoted Christian for forty-four years. He is an aspiring author and Christian apologist. He is a polymath. He has a wealth of knowledge drawn from various books on various subjects over the years: science, philosophy, religion etc. He is also a great husband and father par excellence.

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Table of Contents

The Incarnation and its Aberrations

The Prophecy of the Virgin Birth (Matthew 1:18-24)

Mary’s Fullness of Time

The Conception of the Son of God

A Perusal of the Magnificat

The Paradoxes of God

The Birth of God, the Baby

Mary According to Scripture

The Angel of the Lord, God, the Baby, God-Man

Introduction

I am extremely fascinated with the incarnation of the Son of God. It is my favorite biblical doctrine. It is an amazing and astonishingly mind-blowing reality. Yahweh, the Almighty God Himself, added another nature, human nature, to Himself. Two natures united in the person of Jesus Christ forever.

For Yahweh—the All-mighty God, the Sovereign Creator and Sunesteken (the Cohesive Force) of all things took unto Himself—babyhood seems so surreal, yet real. The Helper of man became a helpless baby.

No other stages of Jesus’ life hypnotically impressed me more than His babyhood. It has become my idee fixe for years. My insatiable engrossment with it has catalyzed me to write this book. Anyone, even someone who never had a baby, can just look at a baby as if that baby were Jesus Himself and imagine how you would respond, behave, think, and ponder as you assiduously and breathtakingly observe that baby, and how you would care for Him. You would be overwhelmingly mesmerized and awestruck throughout your whole life with perplexing thoughts and many, many unanswerable questions.

God Himself! Yes! God Himself became God, the baby, crawling around in a diaper, making weird sounds. He ate, cried, and pooed. He reached out for and grabbed objects; He touched Himself. The omniscient God, the God who knows all things, explored and learned about the things that were around Him. Eruption of goosebumps dot my skin and chills ripple throughout my body just to ruminate at O altitudo of such a thought, and then I prostrate in worship. The incarnation is a delicate mystery that we must handle with meticulous deftness, precision, and dexterity of language. Imprecise language is the skeleton of all erroneous Christologies. We must think rightly about the incarnation to word it rightly. For instance, the incarnation was not the subtraction of Deity, but the addition of human nature. It is not two natures in one nature or two persons in one person (Nestorianism), which would be illogical and heretical. Instead, it’s two natures united in one person. This mysterium fidei, is not a contradiction. It is suprarational (meaning it goes beyond human reason), but not irrational (against human reason).

Dr. Geisler, in the magnus opus, The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, stated, Human understanding unaided by special revelation cannot reach them [Trinity and incarnation]. They can only be known by special revelation. Once their truths are known, their premises do not contradict other revealed truth. ¹

Even a simple formulation can be used to harness the revealed truth without compromising its exactness: The incarnation is two whats (natures) in one who (person). The Trinity, is three whos (persons) in one what (being). We must not forget the incarnation is the work of the Trinity. On behalf of fallen humanity, the second person in the Godhead, according to the covenant of redemption, chose to become a mortal man to atone for their sins and grant them eternal life.

This grand and glorious mystery had its ideation in the mind of God, who effected it in time in 3 to 4 inches by 2.5 inches of uterine space in a young girl. The stage is set, and all the participants in this drama of redemption will freely participate according to the sovereign, predetermined will of God.

Now, the curtain is about to be drawn for you to read and see in your mind’s eye that the Son of God carried out His greatest mysterious creation ever within the womb of a woman to become, God, the baby.

The Incarnation and its Aberrations

In the Epistles, there are three primary loci classici of the incarnation of the Son of God.

The first is:

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus 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. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:5-8

The second is:

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption of sons.

Galatians 4:4-5

The third is:

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

1 Timothy 3:16

The first two loci classici are restricted to the subject of the incarnation of Christ. However, the third locus classicus, hymned in compact staccato format, is actually a compendium of the entire life and ministry of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul’s term for the incarnation is the mystery of godliness. Another apt Latin term is a mysterium tremendum, which means an overwhelming mystery. Indeed, it is!

Like the Trinity, the incarnation is a Je ne sais quoi, a French phrase for something that cannot be adequately described or expressed. The operative term is adequately described.

No man can adequately describe or explain the incarnation of Christ. Every analogy is imprecise to fully grasp this truth. That’s why it is called a mystery, not a puzzle. It is not meant to be solved nor comprehended.

The illustrious Norman Geisler, wrote in his magnum opus, The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics:

"A mystery is not to be confused with an antinomy or paradox, which involve a logical contradiction. A mystery goes beyond reason but not against reason. There is no contradiction, yet we lack total comprehension. Further, a mystery is not something that can be attained by unaided human reason. A mystery is known only by special divine revelation. Hence, mysteries are not the subject of natural theology but only of revealed theology. Another characteristic of a mystery is that while we know that both elements making up the mystery are true and ultimately fit together, nevertheless, we do not know how they are compatible. For example, we know that Christ is both God and human, but it is a mystery just how these two natures unite in one person.

Finally, a mystery is distinguished from a problem. A problem has a solution, a mystery is the object of meditation. A problem calls for extensive concentration, like a missing word in a crossword puzzle, a problem can be solved by more knowledge; a mystery cannot. If it could, it would not be a mystery. Mysteries do not call for answers, but for insights".²

Whenever we are cerebrating the doctrine of the incarnation, like the doctrine of the Trinity, we have to be painstakingly careful. These doctrines are extremely profound and delicate. It’s like walking the tightrope across the Grand Canyon. Meticulous balance is necessary or else you will fall off on either side to your death. This taut rope represents Christological