Person and Work of Christ

Person and Work of Christ

In response, God sent those floods and conflagrations, famines and plagues, wars and thunderbolts - punishments progressively drastic - in order to restrain the noxious illness of their souls (Lewis 1980 335-362). Then, just when the vast flood of evil had nearly drowned humankind, the firstborn and first-created Wisdom of God, the preexistent Word himself, appeared in his great kindness, as an angelic vision or in person as God's saving power to one or two of the God-fearing men of old, yet always in human form, since they could receive him in no ...