Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of
time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
We
believe that the death of Christ is just that point in history at which
something absolutely unimaginable from outside shows through into our own
world. And if we cannot picture even the atoms of which our own world is built,
of course we are not going to be able to picture this. Indeed, if we found that
we could fully understand it, that very fact would show it was not what it
professes to be—the inconceivable, the uncreated, the thing from beyond nature,
striking down into nature like lightning. You may ask what good it will be to
us if we do not understand it. But that is easily answered. A man can eat his
dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept
what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would
not know how it works until he has accepted it.
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.
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