In the late nineteenth century...
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In the late nineteenth century, Sir Francis Galton proposed that the human fingerprint could be used to identify people. Each person has a particular and unique ridge pattern on the tip of the fingers. This pattern remains constant throughout life. Soon law enforcement was using fingerprinting to identify people at the scene of a crime. Since then, technology has become more sophisticated. It has been discovered that each person has a unique pattern in the iris of the eye. Bank teller machines, scanning the iris, can identify if the correct person is making a withdrawal from an account. Each person has a special way of being identified, whether by fingerprints or iris scanning. So does God! Jesus is God's print in the world and for the world. This is what the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews means when speaking about Jesus as "the exact imprint of God's very being." We can tell that God has been here, at the crime scene of our sin, when we see Jesus, "the exact imprint of God's very being." He is Immanuel, the very fingertips and eyes of God with us.
-- Molldrem
-- Molldrem
