What kind of man is this?
Speaking of the founder of Christianity Schaff writes:
"All attempts to derive his doctrine from any of the existing schools and sects have utterly failed. He never referred to the traditions of the elders except to oppose them. From the Pharisees and Sadducees he differed alike, and provoked their deadly hostility. He was independent of human learning and literature, of schools and parties. He taught the world as one who owed nothing to the world. He came down from heaven and spoke out of the fullness of his personal intercourse with the Great Jehovah."Indeed, so sublime and insightful. Christ was not a mere "learned man;" approaching him was not like listening to Platinga, Kelsey, Einstein, Plato, nor Dostoyevsky even. For Christ was a man not of learning in the human sense, rather Christ on account of Jehovah, spake as one having authority and knowledge: an authority not earned by rising in human ranks of class, or education, but an authority from God Almighty.
How awesome is His name? Can we not now better understand the crowds when they asked themselves, "From whence hath this man these things?" or "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" (Mark 6 and Matthew 13 respectively) Christ did owe the world nothing, all the more why we owe Him everything.
Posted by jeremy stock at December 21, 2001 06:26 AM