Scholar Richard Niebuhr once
compared Jesus to the Rosetta Stone. For
years Egyptologists could only guess at the meanings of the hieroglyphics. Then
one day they found the Rosetta Stone, and on this stone they saw the same text
reproduced in Greek, ordinary Egyptian script, and hieroglyphics. By comparing what they knew of the other
languages they could finally decipher the hieroglyphics. Now they could know what they could only
guess at before. Niebuhr said that Jesus
is like that for us. When God is
confusing, when we’re not sure what He’s really like, or what He really wants,
we can gaze steadily at Jesus, because He’s the image of the Invisible God, the
Rosetta Stone of our faith.
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