question round. They are indeed ignorant of something: but their real ignorance is not so much about him, Jesus, but about God. It isn’t that they do know God but aren’t sure if Jesus comes from God; it is, rather, that they don’t even know God, and so naturally cannot associate the Jesus they are seeing with the true God. The same challenge comes to today’s world. Often people look at Jesus and draw conclusions about him based on faulty ideas of God and the world. But the Christian message insists that people must learn afresh who God is, what the world is, and who we ourselves are, by
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