ONE PARTICULARITY IN THE BIRTH OF JESUS
Our Lord JESUS
CHRIST, by being the SON OF GOD, already can be said of being of a unique
nature, that even though He became a human baby, He was not begotten, neither born
like a human in every sense.
And one of these
particularities was that his human birth, even though it must have lasted the
full nine months of gestation, and came to happen in a natural way, and not in
the fantastic manner that later tradition attributed to his holy birth by
saying that Jesus was born ‘like a beam of light passing through a glass’, and
that Holy Mary remained virgin during and after delivery (1); other details somehow
have been over looked by Reformed Christology, and one of this, is that JESUS’
birth was totally painless.
FREE OF ALL
SIN
Painful birth
delivery was part of God’s punishment for the Adamic fall, imposed on women, as
a memory of Eve’s default:
“To the woman He
said:
“I will
surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
in pain you
shall bring forth children”.
(Genesis 3:16).
As the hymen
brakes, as the hips enlarge as the new born comes out, it must necessarily cause
discomfort, and this is the degree of ‘pain’ the Bible refers to in Genesis
3:16. But painful suffering by bringing life to Earth, it was not part of God’s
design for humanity. This completely natural process became painful as a
punishment for Eve causing the fall of humanity.
But Jesus was free
from all Original Sin.
Jesus incarnated
as a pre-fallen human, like Adam was when he was created, and He was also divine.
As a perfect
human being and God, Jesus could not be subjected to the same punishment given
to humans after the Fall. He could not grow old, He could not get sick, He
could not die of natural causes. He was immortal like Adam was. And He could neither
suffer, nor cause suffering to his mother during his gently birth.
Angels announced
the birth of Jesus, and the Heavens announced the incarnation of its Creator
(Luke 2:10-11; Matthew 2:1-2). This alone should hint the special event of his
birth, unusual in every sense.
CONCLUSION
JESUS born
untouched by the consequences of sin. So much from the fall itself, as from the
punishments that followed, and one of them was not to be a pain in Himself to
anyone, except in those who rejected Him.
JESUS birth was
a natural birth, and took away with Him, Mary’s virginity as a silent sign that
HE went through it. But it was gentle, free from all even natural discomfort,
as it is suitable to God’s human birth, and specially, because He was untouched
by all punishment imposed on human life after the Fall.
Omar Flores.
(1) Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, 1943, and Lumen Gentium 57.
Catechism
of the Catholic Church, 499.
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