Can you find another like Jesus?
The religion of our Lord Jesus Christ contains in it nothing so
wonderful as Himself. It is a mass of marvels, but He is the miracle of it; the
wonder of wonders is “the Wonderful” Himself. If proof be asked of the truth
which He proclaimed, we point men to Jesus Christ Himself. His character is
unique. We defy unbelievers to imagine another like Him.He is God and yet man, and we challenge them
to compose a narrative in which the two apparently incongruous characters shall
be so harmoniously blended-in which the human and divine shall be so
marvelously apparent, without the one overshading the other. They question the
authenticity of the four Gospels; will they try to write a fifth? Will they
even attempt to add a few incidents to the life which shall be worthy of the
sacred biography, and congruous with those facts which are already described?
If it be all a forgery, will they be so good as to show us how it is done? Will
they find a novelist who will write another biography of a man of any century
they choose, of any nationality, or of any degree of experience, or any rank or
station, and let us see if they can describe in that imaginary life a devotion,
a self-sacrifice, a truthfulness, a completeness of character at all comparable
to that of Jesus Christ Himself? Can they invent another perfect character even
if the divine element be left out? They must of necessity fail, for there is
none like unto Jesus Himself (Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of the New
Testament).
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