"It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the
profoundest and most unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. 'The
Word became flesh' (Jn. 1:14); God became man; the divine Son became a Jew; the
Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie
and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught
to talk like any other child. And there was no illusion or deception in this:
the babyhood of the Son of God was a reality. The more you think about it, the
more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this
truth of the Incarnation." J.I. Packer
