What Think Ye of Christ?
Some fool used the latest snowfall to write ‘yes’ on my car’s rear window. I wondered at the question. Was it a response to a job offer? An acceptance of a proposal of marriage? An affirmation of a well presented and carefully constructed a priori philosophical deduction? All rather unlikely.
Yet there is a question which demands an answer: “What think ye of Christ?”, asked in Matthew 22:42a. Although this does not allow a simple yes/no response, the choice is still binary. One either accepts Him or rejects/neglects Him; one submits to Him or despises Him. One must give one’s answer; to say nothing is to refuse Him.
What think ye of Christ? is the test
To try both your state and your scheme;
You cannot be right in the rest,
Unless you think rightly of him;
As Jesus appears in your view,
As he is beloved or not,
So God is disposed to you,
And mercy, or wrath are your lot.
-John Newton
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