{"id":3974,"date":"2025-12-23T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:30:46","slug":"the-why-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"The “Why?” of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt<\/span> [lit., “tabernacled”] among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”<\/span> (John 1:14)<\/p>\n

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“God ‘pitched His tent’ among us as a man so we can hear<\/em> what was previously inaudible<\/em> (\u201cThe Word became flesh,\u201d v.14a), see<\/em> what was previously invisible<\/em> (\u201cWe have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,\u201d v.14b), understand<\/em> what was previously inexplicable<\/em> (\u201cNo one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father\u2019s side, has made him known,\u201d v.18), and experience<\/em> what was previously impossible<\/em> (\u201cFrom the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ,\u201d vv.16-17)!” (Long Story Short<\/a>, p.145)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt [lit., “tabernacled”] among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14) “God ‘pitched His tent’ among us as a man so we can hear what was previously inaudible (\u201cThe Word became flesh,\u201d v.14a), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-126","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}