The Creed, and the Virgin Birth

I followed a link a few weeks ago to the blog of Ben Myers.
What led me there was his essay on the Psalms, quoted by Tim Chesterton (who also has a terrific blog).

Today is another fine essay: “On the Virgin Birth: or why it is better to say the creed than to criticise it”

And so we can start to get our heads around the truth of the virgin birth only by confessing it. It's not an explanation or a conclusion that you could arrive at from other premises, historical or philosophical or whatever. It's a truth grasped in the humility of faith....

It's a good thing to be a Christian – I'm sorry to be so banal, but that's what really strikes me. It's a good thing to believe something that you didn't invent for yourself. It's a good thing to have a certain framework, a story that tells you what kind of place the world really is, so that there are some basic questions that are already settled, that you don't have to go on wringing your hands and wondering about. It's a privilege, a real privilege, to be able to join your voice to the church's confession: "... and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate" – and all the rest.

In a time and place where many scorn the historic creeds of the church, it is good to hear someone standing up for them. Thank you, Ben.