{"id":117530,"date":"2022-12-24T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117530"},"modified":"2022-12-24T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T16:01:35","slug":"ji-packer-on-christmas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117530","title":{"rendered":"JI Packer on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps down that led the Son of God to the cross of Calvary, and we do not understand it till we see it in this context&#8230;the taking of manhood by the Son is set before us in a way which shows us how we should ever view it&#8211;not simply as a marvel of nature, but rather as a wonder of grace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;J. I. Packer, <strong>Knowing God<\/strong>, (Downer&#8217;s Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press; 20th Anniversary ed.), p.42<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Peter Paul Rubens, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1608. Artists often distill a narrative to a single frame. Rubens knew angels didn\u2019t appear to the shepherds while they were with Mary and Joseph. He\u2019s telling several parts of the story in one image. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArtWednesday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ArtWednesday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nativity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nativity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rubens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rubens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hiVaRcI1Y6\">pic.twitter.com\/hiVaRcI1Y6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Russ Ramsey &#x1fac0; (@russramsey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/russramsey\/status\/1605669445342568448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps down that led the Son of God to the cross of Calvary, and we do not understand it till we see it in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117530\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,162,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-christology","category-soteriology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117532,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117530\/revisions\/117532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}