WHY I BELIEVE THE BIBLE 9 He lived, for He lived as never man lived. Let any man take the four Gospels for himself and read them carefully and candidly, he will soon be convinced of two things :-First, that he is reading the story of a life actually lived, that no man could have imagined the character there set forth unless the life had been actually lived, much less could four men have imagined a char acter, each one of the four making his own ac count of that character, not only consistent with itself, but consistent with the other three. To suppose that these four men who wrote the Gos pels imagined the life here set forth would be to suppose a greater miracle than any recorded in the Gospels. He will see, in the second place, that the life here set forth is apart from all other human lives, that it stands by itself, that it is manifestly a divine life lived under human con ditions. Napoleon Bonaparte was a good judge of men. He once said regarding the life 0£ Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, which he had been reading, "I know men [and if he did not know men, who ever did?], and Jesus Christ was not a man." What he meant was, of course, that Jesus Christ was not a mere man. Second, Jesus Christ is accredited to us by the divine words that He spoke. If anyone will study the teaching of Jesus Christ with candor and faithfulness, he v.rill soon see that it has a character that distinguishes it from all other teaching ever uttered on earth.
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