Reaching Toward the Heights by Richard Wurmbrand

Author:Richard Wurmbrand [Wurmbrand, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
ISBN: 9780882640662
Publisher: Living Sacrifice Book Company
Published: 2011-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

JULY 6

“Nathanael answered and said to Him, ‘Rabbi, You are the Son of God!’”

JOHN 1:49

I slam and Reformed Judaism accept Jesus as a great prophet. They object to His being worshiped as Son of God. We owe them light in this matter.

In Hebrew, the adjective is little used. The Hebrew would not say “a talkative person,” but Ish dvarim—“a man of words.” For “divine,” he could only say, “Son of God.” In Aramaic, the language the Lord spoke, the adjectives were used even less. Therefore we find in our Bibles the strange expressions, “children of light,” instead of “luminous”; and “son of perdition,” instead of “lost.”

We have to explain to the Jews and Muslims that we don’t believe in Jesus being the Son of God in the usual sense of the word. God has no wife and does not conceive children. The Hebrew of the first century simply did not have another expression to show the degree of Christ’s affinity as man and substantial unity with the Father as God than calling Him “Son of God.”

Modern science supplies us with a new image of what “Son of God” means. We speak about the family of radioactive elements and about a radioactive filiation. Emanation of electrons changes uranium I into uranium II, then into ionium, etc.

We can use different images to exemplify what is meant by the expression “Son of God.” What is certain, however, is that Christ is God. The ancients said, “Aut Deus, aut homo non bonus.” He was either God or not a good man.

Great authors of the twentieth century try to convince us that Jesus was only man. What kind of being must Jesus have been, if after 2,000 years such great effort is still needed to convince men that He was only man. Such a being is God incarnate, in whom we can have full confidence.

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