{"id":5691,"date":"2013-12-25T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2013-12-25T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T15:56:25","slug":"unto-us-a-child-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/unto-us-a-child-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Unto us a Child is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5706\" alt=\"bogareau jesus mary lame\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bogareau-jesus-mary-lame-235x300.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Merry Christmas!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;unto us, a Son is given,<br \/>\nand the government shall be upon his shoulder,<br \/>\nand his name shall be called<br \/>\nWonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Who was Mary&#8217;s first son?<\/strong> Was it God himself, the Father, the Lord God Almighty? <a title=\"Isaiah 9:6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Isaiah%209%3A6&amp;version=NET;KJV;NRSV;GNT\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah<\/a> seems to say so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But appearances can be deceiving. Here are some <strong>helpful discussions<\/strong> by Christian bloggers <a title=\"Jeremy Myers on Isaiah 9:6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tillhecomes.org\/his-name-will-be-called\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Myers<\/a> and<a title=\"Kermit Zarley on Isaiah 9:6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2013\/12\/is-jesus-mighty-god-or-mighty-warrior-in-isaiah-9-6\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Kermit Zarley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>May you have a blessed Christmas, as you thank God for the birth of his unique Son &#8211; an <strong><a title=\"post on Christmas amazement\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/2370\" target=\"_blank\">amazing<\/a> gift<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TN5BaOGTmGs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TN5BaOGTmGs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas! &#8230;unto us, a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Who was Mary&#8217;s first son? Was it God himself, the Father, the Lord God Almighty? Isaiah seems to say so&#8230; But&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/unto-us-a-child-is-born\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unto us a Child is Born<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-christology","category-incarnation","category-mystery","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}