JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

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"You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, 'That is God.'"19
--Martin Luther
"Jesus Christ is a God to whom we can approach without pride,
and before whom we humble ourselves without despair."20
--Blaise Pascal
"The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man,
as a civilized being . . . can believe in the divinity of the Son of God,
Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith."21
--Feodor Dostoevsky
"This Man Jesus Christ . . . does not only live through God and with
God. He is Himself God."22
--Karl Barth
"He was God."23
--C. S. Lewis
"Jesus is God."24
--Wolfhart Pannenberg
"God suffered in the sufferings of Jesus, God died on the cross of Christ. . . .
God became the crucified God so that we might become free sons of God."25
--Jurgen Moltmann
"Instinctively we do not class Him with others. When one reads His name in
a list beginning with Confucius and ending with Goethe we feel it is an
offense less against orthodoxy than against decency. Jesus is not one of the
group of the world's great. Talk about Alexander the Great and Charles the
Great and Napoleon the Great if you will . . . Jesus is apart. He is not the
Great; He is the Only. He is simply Jesus. Nothing could add to that . . . He
is beyond our analyses. He confounds our canons of human nature. He
compels our criticism to overleap itself. He awes our spirits."26
--Carnegie Simpson
Is it any wonder that Ernest Renan said:
"All history is incomprehensible without Christ."27
HIS OPEN INVITATION
"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the
dignity of human choice."28
--G. K. Chesterton