The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 19: what you’re looking at

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xii PREFACE. and to come. Is there not then some great gulf fixed between us and the good Gop?” Dr. Newman here appeals to our reason and our feelings, and none who have suffered can say that what he says is not true. If then there has been an alienation between the Almighty and man, is there no Mediator? The Atonement is the answer. Is not the world a mystery if we simply believe in some vague Almighty Being, and Man? But grant the alienation between God and Man, and then the misery and woe that exists is explained. Grant also that the Son of God took on Himself our nature to restore us again to favour with God, then we see a key to all our puzzles. So the Incarnation is a rational way of ex- plaining what otherwise is a woeful mystery. But again. God is infinite, Man is finite; in Jesus Christ the two are united—the chasm between the Creator and the Creature is crossed over. And once more, to the Historian, I would say this:—History shows that a Messiah was uni- versally expected. A Messiah, one who claimed to be such came at a time and in a place before prophesied. °Y Seoimtelsooks (CO A