Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
How persistently man probes every mystery!  Wherever there are dark and knotty problems, or things hard to be understood, there man stands, the great inquisitor, demanding to know, "How can these things be?"  In a sense, this attitude is the glow of the human race, resulting in countless discoveries and inventions; and yet, there are certain areas that God seems to have reserved for himself, for even in Paradise there was a tree forbidden to man.  In a little different sense, there remain certain questions of the deep things of God, which, by their very nature, are unanswerable.  This is such a question, nor does it stand alone.  However, the question of "how" God does this or that is not necessary to the enjoyment of God's gifts.  As Jesus said: