This anonymous story was popularized by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey’s annual reading.
The man to whom I’m going to introduce you was not a scrooge. He was a kind decent, mostly good man. Generous to his family, upright in his dealings with other men. But he just didn’t believe all that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas time. It just didn’t make sense and he was too honest to pretend otherwise. He just couldn’t swallow the Jesus Story, about God coming to Earth as a man.
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Ravi Zacharias: India-born Christian evangelist and apologist whose intellect, winsomeness, and grasp of diverse cultures helped him to gain a global hearing for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Zacharias died May 19, 2020, at the age of seventy-four. 
There are service departments with parts to fix everything from watches to cars. What about parts for human hearts? Japanese medical researchers have performed the first transplant of lab-grown human heart cells. Adult stem cells were induced to become heart cells growing on biodegradable sheets. The sheets are attached to an ailing heart with the goal that healthy cells will replace the defective ones. If the technique works, it would be a major breakthrough to reduce reliance on whole-organ transplants. Unlike embryonic stem cells, the use of adult stem cells does not require the destruction of a human life and is consistent with God’s intent that we exercise dominion over His creation (Genesis 1:28). 
Source: 2017 Pew Study – Answers Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 4, July–August, 2019, p. 71.
