I confess...

Soon it will be over us again, this veritable tide of time-worn and time-tried old songs. And as always before millions will habitually use their pipes to half-consciously belch out lyrics containing some astounding claims.

Even if Christmas carols are still more or less an integral part of Christmas season musts, I bet the majority of Norwegians do not believe that what they're actually singing about is necessarily true, and that, therefore, they need to pay more than the occasional courtesy visit to the one-time Boy in the manger.

That's why I would like to take the time to state my personal conviction that the wordsmiths and composers behind many of these cherished songs were simply expressing historical truths when their accumulated talents resulted in one Christmas gem after another.

So here I go.

I confess....

1) That God really, in time and space, created life inside a virgin's uterus, life that would eventually result in a genuine miracle boy.

If God is God, why should anyone think of this as something totally beyond His capacity? It is utterly unreasonable, even preposterous, to claim that a Divine Being, responsible for bringing about the existence of laws of nature, would forever be subject to the same laws, in that he couldn't suspend- at will - the normal pattern of cause and effect.

I confess...

2) That God, almost effortlessly and with mind-boggling precision both in planning, monitoring and executing this deviation of normality, created an astronomical phenomenon that we today refer to as the Star of Betlehem.

Yes, this star could very well have been the conjunction of the trajectories of e.g. Jupiter and Venus, being visible to the human eye as a single, recognizably different and majestic display of light on the nigh-time sky. And even if that were the case, that also would be the ultracomplex feat of a mind so much more advanced than ours.

Unlikely? Unrealistic? Far-fetched? Contrived? Not at all. If God is God, it must certainly be within his ability to produce events that we would normally term miraculous. Even if our finite and fatty organ called the brain cannot easily digest such paranormal phenomena, no one in his right mind should off-handedly write them off as being irrational or fictional.

Some still try. Don't follow their example. Don't close your mind. There's so much more to discover.