Sin occurs, says Schleiermacher, “when man tries to live by himself, isolated from the universe and his fellow men. He lives for his own selfish interest, but in so living he finds that he is miserable.” But his very misery is proof of his oneness with God. To overcome the sin that separates man from God and man from his fellow man, God sent a mediator in Jesus Christ. The uniqueness of Christ, says Schleiermacher, is not in some doctrine about Jesus or in some miraculous origin such as the Virgin Birth. “The real miracle is Jesus himself. In Jesus we find a man who had the sense of
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