Jesus Christ is the Word become flesh, not the Word become idea. Had it been the Word become idea, it would have been a philosophy, a moralism. In that case it would have taken its place among the great philosophies of the world—higher, but among. But the Christian faith is not a philosophy, but a fact—the fact of Christ. In him all the ideas have taken shoes and walked. The message is the Man, for the Man is the message—incarnate. Everything he spoke he lived and more. This makes the Christian message not “among,” but apart from, different, sole, unique. “Never man spoke like this man,” for never man lived like this Man. You can’t tell where his words end and his deeds begin, or where his deeds end and his words begin, for his deeds were words and his words deeds. They entwine like words and music of a song. And what words, and what a son, and what harmony!
–E. Stanley Jones,
A Song of Ascents