The Central Character of the Bible (1 of 3 notes)

Part Two
Bibliology: 9 BIBLE EVIDENCES
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY

By Charles F Baker

Some writers have stated that it would have been impossible for sinful men to invent such a perfect character as Jesus Christ. Strong quotes Theodore Parken “It would take a Jesus to forge a Jesus.’’⁴ He also quotes Gore, Incarnation, 63 - “The Christ of the gospels, if he be not true to history, presents a combined effort of the creative imagination without parallel in literature. But the literary characteristics of Palestine in the first century make the hypothesis of such an effort morally impossible.’’⁵ There are doubtless those who would disagree with this conclusion, but, on the other hand, even unbelievers have concurred with this conclusion.

4            A. H. Strong, Systematic Theology (Philadelphia: The Judson Press, 1912), p. 186.

5            Ibid., p. 187.

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