Synopsis Here are profound questions into which, if he is wise, the historian, as I historian, does not enter. He simply notes them. If he is a Christian the historian must believe that God has always been active and has been I pursuing. His purpose of creating sons and not robots. In doing so, [God must have been following the procedure which was eventually [manifested in the incarnation. Paul declared that" when the time had fully come. God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons." We need not here go extensively in to that history. We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty five hundred years-most of them within fifteen hundred years. The twenty-five centuries are Roughly between 1800 BC and Ad 700.