The Conflict of Christmas

Genesis 3:15, Romans 16:20

The Conflict of Christmas

It has been said that the first passage (Genesis 3:15) captures the most glorious and noble of all phrases. The most foremost idea is the idea of enmity - warfare or hostility, a deep hatred. We see the scope of this enmity, the conflict first begins between the serpent and the woman. Then it spreads out to the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. It is a very real war. The plural seed of the woman narrows down to a singular seed, Hebrew meaning of the word "he". So we see the true seed, the champion, is Christ. The climax of this passage is the great battle between Christ and Satan. This war is broad and narrow...we see how it belongs between very few and yet also a great deal of people (all people). Christmas is a time of warm fuzzies, but also we see it being a war of conflict. The bruising of the heel happened at the cross and crucifixion, but the crushing of the head happened with the resurrection. C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy displays the true conflict between the good and bad. We too often make the conflict about all spiritual and nothing truly corporeal. We refuse to see the it is as truly powerful as it really is. We also need to be in prayer: God, give me a fire for You and as such am enmity towards those who oppose you; give me the proper love, not love as they see it, but true love; true love being the fact that we do what is best for them, not to let them go on their path to hell, but true love to correct them and help them see Truth.