I marveled at Jesus, who could in one breath offer rest for all who would come to him, and in the next, address the religious leaders as a brood of vipers. A man who was laid in a smelly manger at birth yet claimed to sit on the throne of the universe. A man whose first uttered sounds were the cries of a newborn baby yet who appeared in Revelation with a sword in his mouth and a voice like rushing water. A man who split history in two and challenged every person who would ever live to either call him a liar or worship him as Lord.