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Practical Christianity

VOL. XXX.

KANSAS CITY, MO., JANUARY, 1909 No. I

JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GODYORK AND SON OF MANUBLIC LIBRARY

SARAH V. LEEDY

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There are two ideas in the minds of the people of *•. 1950 today as to the manner of the birth of Jesus Christ. One idea is that he was the son of Joseph and Mary. Mary' said he was begotten of the Holy Ghost, and Joseph himself, according to the Bible narrative, did not acknowledge his paternity of the child, other than to give it a father's love and protection after having been personally enlightened by God as to its origin.

The people of his own time, who considered him the son of Joseph, were at a loss to account for his powerful and beneficent works, well knowing that flesh produces flesh with the limitations of flesh.

Others have the idea from the Bible narrative that he was the product of flesh in the person of Mary, by the quickening and overshadowing power of the Holy Ghost. People now and then immediately conclude he is more divine than we, and worship him as God, They forget the Bible says he was made like unto the sons of men; that he is our perfect example. They overlook the fact that if he were more divine than we, it would be impossible to follow him as an example.

The manner in which the Christ took flesh does not differ in principle from the way in which we do. It was a union of flesh, so-called, and Spirit the same. The only difference was in the instrumentality of the paternity. To explain the necessity for this difference, and that though thus begotten he is the same as we, is the purpose of this article.

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