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Oh Virginia Real s but not the way of thinking The famous response of the New York Sun Virginia couple has confirmed that all children? S expected? Santa Claus is real. Children use many ways to test their belief in Santa dear. The logic that one could achieve big fat Santa? Probably will not fit in the fireplace, or go all in one night. Other catches in the first place, because the brothers of Santa tease them. Some Saturday at the age of twelve and solemnly informed of the truth from parents conceed that the conviction blurt nonsense in school. Convene other asking children the value of an adult, knowing that the confirmation of their fears establish their belief in a magical Santa firmly in the past. Her birth brings sorrow for the loss of certainty. Once Santa is exposed, it can not be more magical, like the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy left him. As if to compensate, a nascent awareness of the importance of starting to grow when the spell is wiped out. Most of us, as adults? Do you believe in the supeatural events in the history of Christmas more than I believe in Santa Claus. The virgin birth, prophecies, the stable, the angels sing, the wandering stars, the three wise men are seen by most as being in a pleasant fairy tale, and quickly abandoned. Although these stories were never intended to be taken literally, the churches continue to repeat the story, without explanation, making it difficult for people to take the churches? serious message. Theologians like John Shelby Spong was promoted the idea of God in a different way. Most of us are used for God is temperamental, vacillating between the warlord and do good. Nick Cave said that for many this song? ? No? I do not believe in an interventionist God?. But the church had for centuries, prayer seeking God? D intervention among nations, communities, the sick, poor and dead. For the most part, God has been portrayed as a magician in the sky, to whom we please, in order to access their benevolent side. Miracles and healings, the production of food for 5,000 people, a couple of loaves and fishes and walking on water are still made by the churches as literal, or at best, explain the facts. Sponge, however, suggests that if we read the Bible, we realize that supeatural events chronologically ancient Hebrew symbolism and layers by the writer after the writer had been in the twenty-first century. The early writings (Paul) makes no reference to events or supeatural virgin birth. In addition to the supeatural events are intended to be a response to the massive transformation caused by the adult Jesus. The words are not writers, who can only resort to the above, such as impressions? The heavens rejoiced at his birth?. Sponge? S proposals for monitoring the work of theologians such as Robinson, Bonhoeffer, Barth and Tillich. Tillich said that God can not be defined as a personal being, but must be seen not as the ground of all being. If sponge is correct, what does this mean for people to believe in miracles, the virgin birth, resurrection and ascension? The angels, the Magi, the star? Sponge? And against the consequences of seeing God is different? Both a stimulus and an experience of fear? like the child who dares to Santa. Most of us find Santa at an early age, completing the North Pole, the elves, the chimney, reindeer, and frequent sightings of not shopping? Not our experience of a physical world. For some children this is a good start, although tinged with regret that the convictions of one left behind. However, when it stripped the magic of Santa, the child approaches the understanding of generosity. When you emerge from the layer magic of God, go on a jouey into a deeper discovery of Christ. This is an experience that is no longer true? Not in conflict with what we know, that confirms what we know the soul of our universe.