of salvation, there is no access to the person of Christ. That is the approach of the Bible. The New Testament nowhere enters into a sophisticated philosophical discussion about Christ’s person but rather focuses on the salvation brought about by Christ. Famous philosopher of the eighteenth century Immanuel Kant, who inquired into the conditions of our knowledge, maintained that in general we cannot know things directly but only insofar as we can perceive their impact. The identity of Jesus, therefore,
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