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By Victor Knowles

 

In Frank Capra”s acclaimed and heartwarming 1946 film, It”s a Wonderful Life, God sends an angel named Clarence to earth to show George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) what life would be like if he had never been born. The moral of the movie (this is when movies had morals!) is that each person”s life has value and carries with it the potential of influencing many other lives for good. 

In one sense, everyone”s birth somewhat changes the world in which he lives. But in a spiritual and eternal realm, only one birth has truly changed the entire world, and that is the birth of God”s only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ.

 

The Most Influential Life

More than anyone else, Jesus Christ has influenced the history of civilization. George Bancroft said, “I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.”

While we do not know the exact date of Christ”s birth, we do know it altered the way the world measures time. The letters bc are standard for “Before Christ,” while ad (Anno Domini) means “In the year of our Lord.” The calendar is all about Christ. And if we accept 4 bc as the actual year of Christ”s birth, as many biblical scholars do, then 2006 marked the 2,010th birthday of Jesus.

The Bible says, “In him was life, and that life was the light of men” (John 1:4). Joseph Nelson Green was probably thinking of that when he wrote this:

 

There is a strange legend of a world that grew colorless in a single night. The color faded from the sky; the sea became pale and motionless; the green vanished from the grass and the color from the flowers; the fire died from the diamond, and the pearl lost its light. Nature put on her robes of mourning, and the people who lived there became sad and afraid. A world had lost its life and light. If tonight, with one sweep of the arm you bru

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