Editorial January 5, 1987 Issue

Finding our life in Christ

Carolyn B. Swan

The familiar details of Christ Jesus' birth, of his humanity, grow ever dearer to those who increasingly seek a higher understanding of his divinity as the Son of God. The Bible helps us gain this understanding. While the history in the book of Luke telling of Jesus' nativity is thought by some to incorporate his mother's own remembrances, John's Gospel may be viewed as the record of his Father's unfolding of the Christ—the spiritual idea of manhood that Jesus exemplified.

The book of John presents the sacred theology that under-girds the appearing to human perception of the Word that is God, or Truth. Right from the beginning, John declares the divinity of Christ, the God-idea that Jesus embodied.

As the true idea of immortal manhood, Christ may be seen to embrace all real identity, including the spiritual nature of each of us. Jesus called his Father "our Father." And the first chapter of John's Gospel proclaims what could be called the crux of all the Master's teaching when it declares of God and His creation, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."^{John 1:3.}

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