“What think ye of the Christ? whose son is he?” (Matthew 22:42) Was he conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, or was he the natural son of Joseph or of some other unknown man? Did he come from human parentage? This is the crucial question. To it there have been given through all the centuries, in the last analysis, but two answers. The modernists and the fundamentalists can claim no originality for their respective answers. In the days of his flesh, some saw in him the fiery zeal of the Baptist; some, the flowing courage of Elijah; others, the sad-hearted sympathy of Jeremiah. They thought he was a great man—a man with a prophetic message—simply and only a man. Many would take him out of the God-class and put him in the man-class now. Emerson placed him on a level with Caesar, Plato, and Shakespeare.
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