CNN and other news outlets reported enthusiastically on a medical illustration that showed a black baby in a mother's womb. It highlighted the need for more diversity in medical illustrations. "We need more people of color in medical illustrations," they tout while denying that this is a person. It was a fetus. As such, it had no inherent value, wasn't even human, and, frankly, couldn't have a race at all. Come on, people, make up your minds. (Note: As it turns out, human babies at this stage of life are all basically red or pink. They don't develop skin color until later. Clearly accuracy is not at issue here either.)
On this Christmas Eve -- the eve of the day we celebrate a Baby born to save the world -- this becomes somewhat more significant. In the Christmas story we read of the pregnant Mary visiting her cousin, Elizabeth. According to the story, "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit" (Luke 1:41). CNN et al. would like us to discard this story. Clearly a fetus cannot leap for joy (Luke 1:44) in his mother's womb. Indeed, clearly a baby cannot be in her womb since that would suggest a human being.
So, this is Christmas Eve, the evening before our recognition of the arrival of our Savior, Emmanuel, God with us. Don't buy the lie. Mary carried a baby who was Christ, the Lord. He was God before conception and God Incarnate from conception. No amount of jockeying of words will change that.
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