John begins with vital words. He tells us that the Son was from the beginning, but that he revealed himself in human history, and that the apostles had heard, seen and touched him. The Christian faith is not just about ideas. It does not matter too much when Confucius or Buddha lived, nor how they died; what matters is their teaching; not so with Christianity. When the apostle Paul reminded the Corinthians of what he had delivered
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