The Son Of God By Richard Brunner

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16. THE SON OF GOD
While many people in this day and age will shy away from the deity of Christ, Brunner hits the nail on the head when he states that Jesus “is not simply a man like us, but he is God Himself” (73). Christ is the God incarnate, worthy of our worship and praise, and even while He was on earth He still deserved this praise given to Him by His followers and disciples. I like that Brunner talks about this because it gives the reader a good perspective of how we should view Jesus.
When Brunner compares a man with a “1000 dollars” thinking it is not real to the gospel of Christ, He vastly underestimates the worth of the Kingdom of God. While Brunner’s point comes across well enough, he should have said a 1,000,000-dollar bill, or …show more content…

Everything that people do on earth, much like a speedometer, is “somehow “registered” in eternity, to appear for the fist time on the Judgment Day” (81). Recent scientific breakthroughs now suggest that the human brain records everything that happens throughout the course of life, but only certain and specific instances can be physically recalled into the memory at any given time. If someone, say God for example, were to trigger our brains to “play” this memory from start to finish, humans would essentially be able to see their entire lives before their eyes in amazing detail. While this theory is speculative, what is not a mystery is that before God, every human will stand and be declared guilty, because no human being can or will be perfect except for Christ alone. This is a beautiful picture of the gospel, because Christians and all humans stand guilty before God, but instead of condemning us, Jesus Christ became man to save humans from their own …show more content…

Many people who are not Christians read the Bible and can understand it without the Holy Spirit. More convincing is the fact that Jewish people, before Christ, regularly read the Bible without the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. When God dwelled in the tabernacle His spirit was not with people until the day of Pentecost, yet miraculously people understood God’s word without it, poking holes in the argument that Brunner

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