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*PEACE ON EARTH  -   JOY TO THE WORLD* “For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called ‘Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (cf. Isaiah 9:6)             It is another Christmas season, 2020.  Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill.  That was the song by the angels at the first Christmas night.  That is still the song on our lips, voices, hearts and lives today after 2053 years. May that Glory of God continue to be seen in us and may the peace of Christ flourish in all of us all the days of our lives, now and forever.  Amen.             On this occasion it is important to ask ourselves some vital questions:  What is Christmas?  What does Christmas mean to me, to you, to all of us?  Was Christ actually born on December 25th?             The open truth is that the precise, historical date of Christ birth is not known.  The Gospels indic

THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATION OF GENEALOGY The Gospel according to Matthew begins with a genealogy. The Evangelist locates Jesus in relation to God’s eschatological purpose of a new creation; the book of origin as the author called it, asserts the role of Jesus as the one who saves, his purpose is to prove that Jesus is the rightful Messiah to Jewish law by showing his descent from Abraham as such Matthew grounded Jesus in human history more particularly on the issue of faith in the salvation history. Functionally, by using Abraham, Jesus is portrayed not as Jesus of Israel alone, but Jesus of all nations. Hence he gives us all a root back to our father of faith including Jesus. Thus, the object of this essay is to expose the theological implication of identifying Jesus in human history vis-à-vis our Soteriology; that is, the redemption of human race. We shall deploy the method of expository and paraphrasing that would help us among others, which includes elucidating, clarifying and even