Article: IT'S A WONDERFUL CHRIST: BOOK DOCUMENTS JESUS'S ROLE IN HISTORY.(PERSPECTIVE)

Byline: MIKE McMANUS

In the Christmas movie, ``It's a Wonderful Life,'' Jimmy Stewart plays the part of George Bailey, who has a chance to see what his town would be like if he had never been born.

Dr. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe have written an important book on a similar theme, ``What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?'' It's a book for believers and skeptics.

They write that Jesus' birth ``utterly altered the way we measure time. Now the whole world counts time as Before Christ (B.C.) and A.D. ... that means Anno Domini, `in the year of the Lord.'

``It's ironic that the most vitriolic atheist writing a letter must ...

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