JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

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Christian belief in Christ was based upon the recognition that in the Person of Jesus
Christ this salvation had appeared. Thus the belief in Christ's divinity was founded upon the
experience of the early church that the crucified and risen Lord, the Jesus whom the disciples had
known and loved in the flesh, had led them forth out of the bondage of ignorance, superstition,
fear, and sin into God's Kingdom of light, peace, truth and love.
In a letter to a lady who was dying Robert Browning quoted the words of Charles Lamb
when he was asked how he would feel if the greatest of the dead were to appear suddenly in
person once more and if Christ were to enter the room. It is said that Charles Lamb, as he
contemplated the question, responded with great gravity:
"You see—if Shakespeare entered, we should all rise; if Christ appeared, we must
all kneel."8
Similarly Napoleon stated:
"If Socrates should enter the room, we would all rise and do him honor. But if
Jesus Christ came into the room, we would all fall down and worship Him."9