![]() ![]() To the student of history this Man among men stands first, foremost, and alone, as a directing personality in the world's progression. ![]() ![]() Others there are who deny His Godhood while extolling the transcendent qualities of His unparalleled and unapproachable Manhood. The solemn testimonies of millions dead and of millions living unite in proclaiming Him as divine, the Son of the Living God, the Redeemer and Savior of the human race, the Eternal Judge of the souls of men, the Chosen and Anointed of the Father-in short, the Christ. True, there are diversities of deduction based on alleged discrepancies in the records of the past as to circumstantial details but such differences are of strictly minor importance, for none of them nor all taken together cast a shadow of rational doubt upon the historicity of the earthly existence of the Man known in literature as Jesus of Nazareth.Īs to who and what He was there are dissensions of grave moment dividing the opinions of men and this divergence of conception and belief is most pronounced upon those matters to which the greatest importance attaches. The principal data as to His birth, life, and death are so well attested as to be reasonably indisputable they are facts of record, and are accepted as essentially authentic by the civilized world at large. It is a matter of history that, at or near the beginning of what has since come to be known as the Christian era, the Man Jesus, surnamed the Christ, was born in Bethlehem of Judea. ![]()
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