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The narrative continues in Nazareth of Galilee, where Mary, a young Jewish girl set aside by God from the moment of her Immaculate Conception, met with great astonishment the angel Gabriel: “Hail, Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” She was told that she would bear the Son of God, a son to be named Emmanuel, “God is with us,” who was to be the long-awaited Messiah-King, the Savior of Israel. “Let it be done unto me,” she responded, and in the quiet of her bed-chamber, the whole world started over again. The human race was to receive a new mother, a new Eve.
While the word "myth" has come to mean "untrue account," we mean something quite different. Throughout the long ages of human life and culture, myth has been a way of expressing deep truths. And so, here, "mythic narrative" means "meaningful account." Indeed, it is an account that might be entirely true... or mostly false... or somewhere in between. We know where we stand, but that's for each listener to discover.
www.primematters.com
A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text.
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The narrative continues in Nazareth of Galilee, where Mary, a young Jewish girl set aside by God from the moment of her Immaculate Conception, met with great astonishment the angel Gabriel: “Hail, Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” She was told that she would bear the Son of God, a son to be named Emmanuel, “God is with us,” who was to be the long-awaited Messiah-King, the Savior of Israel. “Let it be done unto me,” she responded, and in the quiet of her bed-chamber, the whole world started over again. The human race was to receive a new mother, a new Eve.
While the word "myth" has come to mean "untrue account," we mean something quite different. Throughout the long ages of human life and culture, myth has been a way of expressing deep truths. And so, here, "mythic narrative" means "meaningful account." Indeed, it is an account that might be entirely true... or mostly false... or somewhere in between. We know where we stand, but that's for each listener to discover.
www.primematters.com
A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text.

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