Monday, August 07, 2006

Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?

A lot of people say that Jesus was "just a good moral teacher." However, when you look at the exclusive claims he makes in the Bible, we find out indeed that he is much more.

Jesus claims to be the only means to God. "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). Would a good person who was only a teacher say such a thing?

C.S Lewis states it this way. "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse, but let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He had not left that open to us. He did not intend to" (Mere Christianity).

Would a person who was only a good teacher be able to raise a man from the dead (John 11:1-44), calm storms (Matthew 8:23-27), walk on water (Mark 6:45-52), or ultimately rise from the dead himself (John 20:1-18)?

Who do you say that Jesus is?

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