Thank you for this article! It's great to have this written out in a concise article that I can share with other people instead of trying to explain it myself, or trying to get them to watch five of Jonathan's videos, haha.

Anyways, something I was thinking while reading this: Would you say that it actually is Santa who gives children presents, as opposed to their parents, in the sense that though it is the parents who are actually purchasing/making the gifts, the parents offer the gifts up to Santa, who is the one who ultimately returns them to the children? Would this be the same pattern of how we offer our lives up to Christ, and ultimately he returns it to us with eternal life?