For the materialistic being it will therefore only be analyses that are interesting. What the said being is not in a position to analyse, or what analyses it cannot understand, are for him or her an expression of only imagination or unreality. When the Christmas Gospel of the Bible therefore tells of a child who was born in a stable and laid in a manger and grew up in poor and humble conditions and became terrestrial humanity's greatest spiritual leader, it will mean everything for the materialist to have the purely outer material phenomena established as scientific facts or true, historical data. Should there not happen to be found any such realities or things left behind that can prove that Jesus really existed, the Christmas Gospel becomes quite worthless for a being with this materialistically attuned mind. This is all the more strange since the said historical data, which we shall see with the following, is totally irrelevant to the gospel itself. Whether Jesus has really existed, or has never existed, is not fundamental to the Christmas Gospel. The said gospel was certainly not written or handed down to people as though it were a mere newspaper article to report a current account of this or that famous person's private life or intimate affairs, which can be satisfying for ordinary terrestrial humanity's material curiosity.
      Those who have only an exclusive interest in establishing real proofs for Jesus's historical appearance have in reality no use whatsoever for the Christmas Gospel itself. It will, even with any historical data as facts, be worthless. At most, it will be able to be satisfying for the said being in only an "archaeological" way, but it will never ever be any gospel for him. His curiosity or spiritual needs were in reality only of an "archaeological" nature. In the Christmas Gospel, the spiritual structure appearing in the form of Jesus's fate will for him be something abnormal, exaggerated or incredibly naïve that he has neither the heart nor the sense to be able to accept at all. For him, the Christmas Gospel is in the best case only a collection of stated facts, the birth of a being whose fate became a struggle between some priests and a fanatic, albeit a good-natured fanatic or lay preacher. The number-loving materialist does not in the least see the spiritually ennobling greatness that the gospel is in itself, and whose mission it is to reveal this for those who have "ears to hear" and "eyes to see", because that which the gospel hides behind its outer form, behind any observed scientific or non-scientific numbers and data, is not something that can be stated in terms of number, volume, speed, wavelength, gram or metre. The Christmas Gospel is of course exclusively about a stimulation or conveyance of what we call neighbourly love or rather universal love. And universal love is as is known not something one can define in terms of weights and measures. It is in its deepest nature the leading principle of the universe itself. And it is this principle that is the basis of the Christmas Gospel. The Christmas Gospel tells or reveals this principle in the form of its account of a son of God who was born on earth and the mysterious occurrences that were connected to this birth.