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Memory Text: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us” (John 1:14, NIV).
In the New Testament, without any rationalistic explanations whatsoever,
Jesus Christ is presented as both human and Divine. After
beginning his Gospel with the Word who is God (John 1:1), John
makes the extraordinary declaration that this same Word, this same
God, “became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (vs. 14, NIV).
And perhaps anticipating future concerns about moral contamination,
the New Testament maintains the sinless life of Jesus with
unequivocal consistency (Heb. 7:26, 1 Pet. 2:22). Moreover, the writers
of the New Testament matter-of-factly regard Jesus as a proper
object of worship and veneration (Acts 7:59, Rom. 9:5, Heb. 1:6).
These earliest Christians were not detained by the philosophical
problems inherent in the concept of the God-man or by the difficulties
it would pose for later thinkers. “The humanity of the Son of God
is everything to us. . . . When we approach this subject, we would do
well to heed the words spoken by Christ to Moses at the burning
bush, ‘Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground’ (Exod. 3:5). We should come to this study
with the humility of a learner.”—Ellen G. White, Selected Messages,
book 1, p. 244.