Man’s Claims, God’s Response, Part 1
Show me a sign!
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24
So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Mark 15:31-32
Mankind has always struggled with the temptation to “ascribe to God the manner in which He makes Himself known.” Pastor John reads from a sermon by James Denney entitled “Man’s Claims in Religion and God’s Response” (James Denney, The Way Everlasting [London/NewYork/Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911].