The Truth Behind the Symbols of Christmas. By John Shelby Spong
“I cannot tell you who God is or what God is. That is not within my capacity nor is it within the capacity of any other human being. What I can tell you is how I believe I have experienced God. Even then I have to be aware that I might be delusional.”
These words are part of what has become for me something of a mantra, with which I now conclude almost every lecture I give. They also seem to me to provide the only proper context within which to approach the Christmas narratives that are a gift to us from Matthew and Luke. These two writers were creating not history, but rather poetry born in the hearts of those who believed that they had experienced God in the adult life of a man named Jesus.......................................................
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