Who is Jesus?
"Jesus never actually existed. He's simply a mythical figure conjured up by well-meaning but gullible zealots."
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We cannot regard Jesus as mythological unless we are willing to consider other historical figures, like Alexander the Great, as mythological also. Significant evidence, both Biblical and secular, clearly proves the existence of Christ as an historical figure.
The Biblical documentation for a real Jesus alone is staggering. Consider, scholars have roughly 25,000 ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, over 5,000 of which are from the original Greek. Only ten manuscripts of Julius Caesars' Gallic Wars are known to exist; only seven manuscripts remain from Pliny the Younger's Natural History. If the historicity of these accounts is considered beyond dispute, how much more so must we accept the historical record of the person of Jesus Christ!
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"Jesus Himself never actually claimed to be God. Furthermore, the concept of the Trinity - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - being one is ridiculous."
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That's not what Christ's enemies thought! They wanted to kill Him because they clearly understood that He was claiming to be God (John 10:33). When Christ's followers called Him God, He did not correct them (John 20:28). In fact, there are dozens of reasons why Christians are right to believe that Jesus was God, co-equal with the Father and Spirit.
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"I respect Jesus. He was a good, holy man, perhaps even a prophet, but He was not God."
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There is an inherent problem with this statement. Jesus claimed He was God and that He and the Father were one (John 10:30). We can respond to that claim in only one of two ways. We can either believe Him, accepting Him as God and Savior, OR we can reject Him as a liar and blasphemer.
In his excellent book, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis put it best,
"I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.
He would wither 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. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and Kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
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