{"id":953,"date":"2011-08-22T01:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T05:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/euangelion\/?p=953"},"modified":"2011-08-22T01:38:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T05:38:45","slug":"at-last-we-have-seen-a-man-stephen-neil-on-christs-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2011\/08\/at-last-we-have-seen-a-man-stephen-neil-on-christs-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;At last we have seen a man&#8221; &#8211; Stephen Neil on Christ&#8217;s Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019m reading an old little book by the late Stephen Neil called <em>What is Man?<\/em> and it has this interesting little quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Jesus died, something happened that had never happened before in the whole history of the world. A man had lived the whole of his life in perfect and complete obedience to God. Death really is an end. It marks the end of the chapter. Nothing can now change what has gone before. Through temptation and suffering Jesus has kept His spirit from anger or hate or bitterness. He has given back that spirit in its perfect purity to the Father. This was the purpose for which the whole world was made. The universe had never seen, and so it had lived on through all the centuries in frustration. Now we know what the machine was made for. At last we have seen a man.<a href=\"\/Evangelical%20Theology%20Chaps\/Part%206%20-%20Gospel%20and%20Humanity.docx#_ftn1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">[1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr size=\"1\"><a href=\"\/Evangelical%20Theology%20Chaps\/Part%206%20-%20Gospel%20and%20Humanity.docx#_ftnref1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">[1]<\/a> Stephen Neil, <em>What is Man? <\/em>(London: Lutterworth, 1960), 37.\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reading an old little book by the late Stephen Neil called What is Man? and it has this interesting little quote: When Jesus died, something happened that had never happened before in the whole history of the world. A man had lived the whole of his life in perfect and complete obedience to God. 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