And Matt is the 10 minute Bible hour and we're going to have another one of those conversations that if you don't want your kids to ask you questions about conception,

you might just want to have them jump in after you've previewed this one because we're talking about how baby Jesus happened.

So there's your warning three, two, one, and here we go, you have been advised.

Okay, how did this actually happen?

We started messing with this question yesterday, but I think it's a completely

fair, not gross, reasonable question for someone who's reading the biblical account to

wonder. And come on, everybody is going to wonder about that no matter how holy they try to act.

What actually went on?

Well, I mentioned yesterday that the historic Catholic and Christian position is there was not a physical union with God.

Which leaves us with what?

What does it mean in Luke chapter one when it says the angel answered, the Holy Spirit

will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you.

So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

Look, even those of us who are really into the faith thing, we still live in the

natural world and our

naturalistic assumptions are constantly reaffirmed as we go through our day-to-day

life. So it's very difficult to come across a passage where it looks like the best read on what the authors are trying to convey

is that somehow miraculously God impregnated Mary.

Now how did he do that?

He put sperm cell or like dude chromosomes and stuff just in there miraculously.

I mean I guess it could be. You just skip that phase and go right to now there's a completely

Fertilized egg and it's viable and now we're just ready to go and it's just in there. I have no idea but I tell you who has been theorizing about this is science.

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