In a slight change of plans for the month of December, we are going to spend the next month looking at God’s great love for us through the Christmas story. This week we will look at what makes the Christmas story and Christianity so different from anything else.
“It might be suggested, in a somewhat violent image, that nothing had happened in that fold or crack in the great grey hills except that the whole universe had been turned inside out. I mean that all the eyes of wonder and worship which had been turned outwards to the largest thing were now turned inward to the smallest…It would be vain to attempt to say anything adequate, or anything new, about the change which this conception of a deity born like an outcast or even an outlaw had upon the whole conception of law and its duties to the poor and outcast. It is profoundly true to say that after that moment there could be no slaves…Individuals became important, in a sense in which no instruments can be important.” Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton, 1925, Page 162-163
“But supposing God became a man – suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God’s nature in one person – then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can do it only if He becomes man.” Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, 1942, Pg 58
