The Gap

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Did Jesus live? And did He really say

The burning words that banish mortal fear?

And are they true? Just this is central, here

The Church must stand or fall. It's Christ we weigh.

All else is off the point: the Flood, the Day

Of Eden, or the Virgin Birth—Have done!

The Question is, did God send us the Son

Incarnate crying Love! Love is the way!

Between the probable and the proved, there yawns

A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,

Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse,

Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns

Our only hope: to leap into the Word

That opens up the shuttered universe.

~Sheldon Vanauken