The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.