Telling a Strange Story

Did you ever consider what a strange story we have in Christianity?  I have written about this before, but it bears repeating.

Humans are in trouble. In creating us in Their image, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit gave mankind the responsibility of making choices. By early in the 3^rd chapter of Genesis, mankind had chosen “poorly” separating a sinful man from a RIGHTEOUS G^d.

So we now have a serious CONUNDRUM. We have a HOLY, HOLY, HOLY G^d and a sinful, sinful, sinful mankind. Sinfulness cannot abide in the presence of Holiness, so we have a separation problem. It is a difficult problem to resolve, and difficult problems require clever solutions.

So, the solution was this. G^d became man and did so without a human father. His virgin birth, an obstacle for those unwilling to believe that the G^d who spoke the cosmos into existence can easily overcome simple human reproductive biology.

The virgin-born man, the Christ (Messiah), lived a sinless life, verifying his deity in many ways on many occasions. This G^d-man then gave His life, His Blood as a sacrifice to resolve the problem. Our only part in this resolution is accepting Christ’s sacrifice for our sin.

Hmm, a strange story indeed! How is it that we don’t have to work, we can’t ever do enough good to cancel our sin, but G^d, through his mercy and grace did for us what we could NOT do!

A strange story indeed!  But even strange stories can be true, as is this one. It is true, and obviously NOT a human creation, as we aren’t capable of coming up with such strange stories.

What will you do with the Christ?