‘THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST'

Evening Star, Issue 23683, 17 September 1940, Page 12

‘THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST'

To a large extent Jesus Christ was discredited during His life on earth, said Mr L. 11. Usmar, at the South Dunedin Church of Christ on Sunday. Yet more than any other individual He had influenced human history. Shallow thinkers classified Jesus with the great mythological figures of the past. They said He never really lived. But there were certain well defined laws according to which myths grew up, and a close examination of these showed that Jesus was removed from any such fiction of the imagination.. If we believed that Napoleon or Washington lived, upon the same laws of history we were compelled to believe that Jesus actually lived. Jesus Christ believed that He was the Divine Son of God, and made claim to that fact. Furthermore, He demonstrated that Ho was Divine. His disciples naturally gained that impression; He fulfilled prophecies concerning Himself; Scriptural writers declared Him to be the Son of God; His Resurrection was one of the greatest proofs of all. His sinless character forever stamped Him as the One sent from God. As the Universal Christ He appealed to liotb sexes; to every race, to each generation, and to all people from childhood to old age. He was the only One who could offer man salvation from sin and assurance of eternal happiness.