Secularism in Canadian culture, and the liberalism and
self-centeredness in the church would have us believe Jesus Christ was a mere
man! They cannot and will not accept the
mystery that Jesus is both God and man in one Person.
Yes
this is a mystery that cannot be explained. Yet
it is the mystery and truth which does explain the power of God in the world
and the Christian church.
B.B.
Warfield put it this way. “Without it
(deity & humanity of Christ in one Person forever) everything else is an
incomprehensible mystery: the whole developing history of the kingdom of God,
the gospel-record, the great figure of Paul and his great Christological conceptions,
the rise and growth and marvelous power of nascent Christianity, the history of
Christianity of the world, the history of the world itself for two thousand
years – your regenerated life and mine, our changed hearts and lives, our assurance
of salvation, our deathless hope of eternal life. And yet
we are invited to believe Him to have been a mere man, on no other ground than
that it is easier to believe him to have been a mere man than a God-man! For that, after all, is what the whole ground
of the assertion that Jesus was a mere man ultimately reduces to. But is it possible to believe that all that
has issued form Jesus Christ could issue from a mere man?” (B.B. Warfield. The
Person and Work of Christ)
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