It's one thing for the evil pagan deities like Moloch and Peor to be forced in to hell by the newly born Christ.
V&A, London, until 26 February Anonymous, The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1630s This powerfully realistic portrayal of the humble shepherds who came to see the new born Christ is palpably influenced by Caravaggio and was probably painted in Naples about two decades after he worked there.
He reports "ancient nominalists" as dealing with (1)–(4) by denying (3) — they claimed that what God knows is simply an event, the nativity of Christ, and so the sentences "Christ was born" and "Christ will be born" signify the same thing, since they signify the same event (ST Ia 14, 15 ad 3), and therefore the objects of divine knowledge these sentences express do not differ.
To greet the new-born Christ.
Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality.
Dear brothers and sisters, today, in this world, in this humanity, is born the Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
At this time of uncertainty in the life of our nation, help us look to Christ, born as a baby, crucified as our Saviour, ascended as risen Lord and returning in power as King.
It was a burro that carried Mary and Joseph to the stable where Christ was born, a burro that carried Christ into Jerusalem for one of his last acts, a burro that accompanied his followers into other empires and across time, finally helping trappers, prospectors, and soldiers make their way into the Old Testament scenery of the American West.
When he was preaching at Calvary, Bell used to emphasize the importance of being born again in Christ; church members would often ask one another about the day they surrendered.
Yet just as he managed to put his Texas oil patch failures behind him when he was born again in Christ, the president might well sense an opportunity to put his Iraq woes in the past.
Back at their red-brick colonial campus 45 miles from Washington, they were taught that the Earth was literally created in seven days and that those who weren't born again in Christ faced an afterlife of "conscious torment for eternity".
