describe why are inconsistencies among the infancy narratives.Does this diminish their value and importance?how do these inconsistencies point us instead to the individual themes of the narratives
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As the joyous Christmas season approaches, we are given the opportunity once again to reflect on one of the central mysteries of our holy faith, namely, that the Son of God became man, born of a woman like every other human being. The Sacred Scriptures are the primary sources for the accounts detailing the conception and birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the participation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in these events.
Through careful analytic study, scripture scholars generally are in agreement that the Gospel according to St. Mark is the first which was written. Mary is not mentioned until chapter six when Jesus had already begun His public ministry and the people began to ask, "Where did this man get all this? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?"