John 14: 7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
No man can see God face to face and live. For God is holy and in His holiness what ever is of sin cannot be in His presence. The corrupted nature of a human being must be spiritually transformed into something incorruptible. Man could never accomplish this on his own so God in His grace made a plan of salvation. That His eternal Son would become a human being and take man's place on a cross. Since man is corrupt the sacrifice would have to be incorruptible. There could only be one way for this to happen. It would have to have been the sinless Son of God.
God became a human embryo in the womb of a teenage Israelite. She would have to be a virgin in order that the offspring would not be tainted by the human bloodline of Adam. There could be no other way than for it to have been via an immaculate conception.
So Jesus Christ was born into the world to save sinners. The Bible had been refuted before it was ever published. Mankind has furiously tried to disprove the word of God as being truth but mankind has yet to accomplish this. And for good reason. Only God could come up with such a story. Only God could come up with such a plan. When you see it for what it is it is impossible not to see that this plan had to be exactly the way it happened. This is one of the reasons that the many who refute God's word end up failing in their refute. The plan is too perfect and has no holes in it at all. Of course it doesn't, it's God's plan.
No man has seen the face of God and lived but thousands saw the face of Jesus Christ during His earthly lifetime. Not only did they see His face, they heard His words and witnessed His acts. Some actually touched His body. Some touched His resurrected body. And you can count on it that many were touched by Him as deep down as a person could be touched.
How many of them were able to put two and two together that this man was more than a man. That this man was actually Emmanuel; God with us. That when they looked into His face or heard His words or touched His hands that they were actually seeing, hearing and touching God Himself. Jesus said that He and His father were one. That there was nothing that He said or did that didn't originate from His Father. Jesus was completely dependent on the Father for everything (that's a lesson in itself for us believers). And He perfectly represented His Father to the world.
The beliefs around the world about who God is are as varied as we can imagine. He can only be who He is. There is only one way to the Father. There is no other approach to His throne but through the bloody mangled body of Jesus Christ. And He began His mission here as an infant.
Consider who this infant really is. Consider what it would mean if you would allow yourself to be touched by Him. Consider the possibility that this babe in the manger is actually God wrapped in human skin. If you know Him you know His Dad too. Wow.
If you don't know Christ you can't know God.
No Christ, No God.
Know Christ, Know God.
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