Any view of Christ that sees him as less than infinite is infinitely less than the real thing.

If your view of Christ is not as infinite, then there is an infinite gulf between your view and the view of the real thing.

There are many opinions out there about who Jesus is.

Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet. Liberalism has a Jesus.

In fact, if you walk down the street and ask a stranger what they know about Jesus, you'll hear lots of different answers.

But what matters, our standard of truth, is whether that Jesus is the Jesus of the Bible.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and I'm glad you're with us today for renewing your mind.

We must contend for the truth of who Jesus is.

That's what J. Gresham Machin did with the release of his book, Christianity and Liberalism, a hundred years ago this year.

To mark that milestone and the theological significance of Machin's book, this week Stephen Nichols is unpacking Christianity and Liberalism, chapter by chapter.

Here's Dr. Nichols as Machin compares the Christ of Liberalism with the Christ of Christianity.

Well, we were talking about the book that contains the message of the gospel.

That message of salvation is in a person. It's in Jesus Christ.

As Machin unfolds this chapter, we have a comparison once again between the Christ of Liberalism and the Christ of Christianity.

As Machin uses this expression, it was an expression of Harry Emerson Faustics that Jesus is the fairest flower.

Jesus is the fairest flower of humanity.

That's the Liberal view. It's a high view of who Jesus is to be sure, but it is short of the biblical view of Christ as the God-man.

And as the fairest flower of humanity in Liberalism, Jesus is but an example of faith.

So we don't put our faith in Jesus. We have the faith of Jesus.

We aspire to attain to that level of faith that Jesus had his whole life.

He lived trusting in God and living by faith. And that is an example for us to follow.

An example of faith.

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