Only if Jesus was truly more than a man, if he was God incarnate as that first pastor and the gospel authors claimed, would his unparalleled impact on history make sense. Wouldn’t we expect God to inspire the ancients to think about him and the Jews to prophesy about him? Wouldn’t we expect history to align to his arrival? Wouldn’t we expect God to have an explosive impact on the most important aspects of human existence? Wouldn’t we expect him to reorder our calendar and transform our history? Jesus had that kind of impact—the impact we would expect from God.
