The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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how this "most precious message" was brought to<br />
the fore time and again through the centuries both<br />
before and after the 1260 years of papal<br />
supremacy. Little was said about it in pre-<br />
Reformation times however, for reasons that are<br />
not difficult to imagine. Those who did from time<br />
to time advocate it were mercilessly opposed, even<br />
by Protestant leaders. But their opponents never<br />
came to grips with the objective realities of their<br />
message. Time and again, Johnson points out, their<br />
opponents jumped to the conclusion that when they<br />
said that Christ "took fallen human nature" they<br />
implied that He was a sinner, whereas the opposite<br />
is the truth. (<strong>The</strong> same insistent misapprehension<br />
seems echoed in current efforts in our midst to<br />
oppose the 1888 concepts.) Speaking of those who<br />
believed Christ took fallen human nature, Johnson<br />
comments:<br />
In their view it was perfectly possible to hold<br />
side by side His sinlessness and his assumption of<br />
"fallen human nature," and they do not appear to be<br />
guilty of illogically combining incompatibles. If<br />
this doctrine has been rejected for this reason, it<br />
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