Christ was uniquely part divine and part mortal. The Almighty was his father, the woman Mary was his mother. <\/p>\n
Christ is called the Word<\/a>: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”<\/p>\n Revelation is also called the word of God. <\/p>\n Revelation is from the Almighty and is therefore part divine<\/a>. It is also part mortal: The scriptures tell us that God speaks to mortals line upon line<\/a> and according to their language<\/a>; we filter and express divine inspiration through our own tendencies and inklings. God speaks to us and through<\/em> us. That’s not the only way that revelation has a mortal parent. The scriptures tell us that we are co-enterprisers in revelation, since it often only comes when we study and ask<\/a>. Revelation, whether public or private, requires a willing, laboring human host and takes the imprint of that host.<\/p>\n It is not for Christmas alone that the angel proclaims Behold the condescension of God!<\/a> It is not for herself alone that Mary marvels: “He hath regarded<\/a> the low estate of his handmaiden.”<\/p>\n [Ed.: revised for clarity]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christ was uniquely part divine and part mortal. The Almighty was his father, the woman Mary was his mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30240,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/30240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}