Things to Know Going Into Philosophical Crumbs

Going into Philosophical Crumbs, my professor reminded us all that Kierkegaard writes to clarify. In this case, Kierkegaard was writing because he thought many Christians were simply wrong in what they believed about God and His becoming man. Kierkegaard despised conceptual confusion in general, but he was sincerely worried in this case that a misunderstanding might steal many people's salvations from them.
For Kierkegaard, the one thing you needed to accept and know to be a Christian was that God came as a human and died. That's it. In fact, you didn't need to know a single miracle that Jesus performed, or that he rose three days later. You only had to know that God came down as man and died. However, knowing this one fact was essential, and without it you were not a Christian. Furthermore, Kierkegaard realized that accepting this fact was going to be very hard for most people.
It is also important to note that while Kierkegaard sets up his point of view (the Christian point of view) up against that of Socrates, he knows that his readers will side with him. After all, the Danish Church was pervasive and it was unlikely that any of his readers would not have been Christian.