The Christmas story

James H. Cagle Contributor “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life” (1 John 1:1 KJV). There were those in John’s day as the Gnostics that did not believe that Jesus Christ was incarnate or had come in the flesh, and as a human lived and walked among men. John, however, gives personal testimony to the fact that He who was from the beginning in eternity past was an actual man who spoke, and that he heard with his own ears, and one who he saw with his own eyes, and one who he looked or gazed upon as he ministered among men, and who he studied or meditated u