The Savour didn't attempt to make His own nationals politically supreme or successful in war. He didn't stir up any political rebellions. He didn't directly attempt to better the living conditions of the workers, and yet He started the greatest revolution that human history has ever known. Certainly there is something wrong with the picture, and there seems to be only two solutions to the difficulty either God made a mistake or we are making a mistake. If we can judge God's mind from His actions, it would seem that the things we want to be saved from are only of minor importance, that there is something greater and deeper, something that goes right down to the very rots of human nature; and, if we can tead aright the history of the human face, that something is the fact and consequences of rebellion against the will of God; and that something's name is, the ugy little word "SIN." That is why we had to have a Saviour and for no other reason. And if you have even hazy idea of the nature of God and the nature of men, you should see that the Saviour given to us is The nly Being that could possibly save us. Our rebellion is against an Infinite Being, against Infinite Justice. and only an infinite human act can adequately atone for our offense. A finite man cannot perform an infinite act. An Infinite God cannot perform a human act. Only a Being possessing both the nature of God and the nature of man can perform an infinite human act. Hence the necessity of the Incarnaton, the necessity of God assuming human nature, the necessity of The Word becoming Flesh and dwelling in our midst; hence the doctrine of The Divinity of Jesu Christ, The Saviour, If infinitely perfect Justice demands atonement, Christ must be God.
It is only within very recent years that those outside the Church ave awakened to the fact that there is such a thing as a vicious, vile, unscrupulous and unethical propaganda. Isn't it just possible, even highly probable, that a great dear of that pernicious propaganda has been used in dealing with the personality of Christ? Isn't it likely that politics end prejudice, bias and bigotry, ignorance and immorality have motivated the attacks against thee Divinity of Christ?
Real scholars are no longer mouthing the swart cliche of Voltaire. Rousseau and Renan. They are trying to forget the propaganda and are going back and doing a little research of their own. They are going back to the New Testament and are trying to answer for themselves the question: "What think ye of The Christ?"
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