A thought from the scriptures
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For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began . . . have they not said that God himself should come down among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth? — Mosiah 13:33-34
"Without Christ there would be no Christmas, and without Christ there can be no fulness of joy," wrote President Ezra Taft Benson in an article in the December 1993 Ensign, which was titled "Keeping Christ in Christmas."
"Thanks be to God the Son for the offering of Himself. And thanks be to God the Father that He sent Him. 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son' (John 3:16). ...
"He was the Only Begotten Son of our Heavenly Father in the flesh — the only child whose mortal body was begotten by our Heavenly Father. His mortal mother, Mary, was called a virgin, both before and after she gave birth." (See 1 Nephi 11:20.)
"And so the premortal God, the God of the whole earth, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Lawgiver, the God of Israel, the promised Messiah was born a babe in Bethlehem."
