Gospel is man, with all the attributes of most real and genuine
manhood: but He is also more than man. He is the self-utterance--the
Word--of GOD. He came forth from GOD, and went to GOD. He is the
revelation of the Father, the expression of GOD'S nature and being "in
the intelligible terms of a human life." To have seen Him is to have
seen the Father, because He and the Father are one. He is the Way, the
Truth, and the Life: the Bread that came down from heaven: the
Fountain of living water: the Lamb of GOD, that taketh away the sin of
the world.

Later Christian orthodoxy never got farther than this. All that the
formal doctrine of the Incarnation--as expressed, for example, in such
a formulary as the Athanasian Creed--can truly be said to amount to is
just the double insistence that Christ is at once truly and completely
man, and also truly and completely GOD. The paradox is left
unreconciled--"yet He is not two, but one Christ." The Godhead is
expressed in manhood: in the manhood we see GOD.

What does it mean to confess the Deity of Christ? It means just this:
that we take the character of Christ as our clue to the character of
GOD: that we interpret the life of Christ as an expression of the life
of GOD: that we affirm the conviction, based upon deep and unshakable
personal experience, that "GOD was in Christ reconciling the world
unto Himself."

What is the real question, the most fundamental of questions, which
arises when we seek to interpret the world we live in? Is it not just
the question: What is the nature or character of the ultimate Power or
Principle or Person upon which or upon whom the world depends? Is not
every religion, every imagined deity, in one sense an altar to the