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In many homes across the country, it\u2019s not Christmas without sitting down to watch an adaptation of Charles Dickens\u2019 \u201cA Christmas Carol<\/a>.\u201d But according to Hillsdale College professor of English Dwight Lindley, many of the film versions fail to relay the full, rich message Dickens sought to portray in the 1843 novel.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d is \u201cactually about the incarnation of Christ,\u201d Lindley says. Dickens, according to Lindley, takes Scrooge on a journey of becoming more childlike so that he can come to a place \u201cwhere he can meet God.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The story intends to call to mind the biblical<\/a> passage in Mark 9 that says, \u201cWhoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me, but the one who sent me.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n Lindley explains that the invitation in the novel is for Scrooge to receive Tiny Tim, and in so doing, receive Christ.\u00a0<\/p>\n