The Hiddenness of God
A Hidden God?
In the early 2nd century a Greek opponent of Christianity named Celsus argued that Jesus could not be God because there was nothing visibly divine about him. Celsus writes:
“If there were a divine spirit in the body of Jesus, that body would of necessity vary in some respect from other bodies…in size, in beauty, in strength, in voice. It would have something attractive in its characteristics for it’s impossible that the body having something of the divine nature should in no way differ from other bodies. But Christians say that the body of Jesus was not at all different. Indeed…
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