I know that there are several that refuse to believe in any faith because of the terrible things done in the name of that faith. The fault with that argument typicallys is that those that say that often overlook the good done in the names of those same faiths.
As fair disclosure, I am a sold out believer in Jesus as the Christ.
I write this post as a rebuttal to Brad's argument that Jesus isn't the Christ, but just one of humanity's greatest teachers. C.S. Lewis refutes this argument best in his Mere Christianity:
"I am trying here 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 either be a lunatic — on the 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 patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." (Lewis 1952, pp. 43) .
I'm usually not one to just quote other's words and leave it at that, but Lewis' argument is cut and dry. Jesus was either a liar, deranged, or, as he claimed, the Son of Man. It's your choice. I think the argument is strongest for Jesust being the Christ.
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Thank you for posting this.
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