Hello! Jesus isn't just the great teacher of humanity but Christ as He claimed

In a recent post on Brad's Brain, Brad described why he doesn't believe in God. I'm not posting to convert Brad. If he choses not to believe in God, that's his choice. In my short stint in blogdom, Brad and I have disagreed on most everything. I do respect Brad's intelligence and point of view, I just don't agree with him usually.



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.

Why are we so negative?

In the short time I've been blogging, I've noticed that the majority of blogs I've visited have a very negative slant. It seems that a lot of people think that being sarcastic or mean is the only way to drum up any interest in what they're saying.

What's funny is that I try to avoid that on my posts but have a hard time doing so in "real life." For me, it's easier to reach out to strangers with open arms without trying to joke on them, while almost all of my responses to my family and coworkers.

I really need Christ to help me with this. He is the only one that can truly change a person's heart permanently, but I've had a really hard time recently letting him be in control.

My wife and kids deserve better. In the blogging world, the public discourse deserves better. I'm tired of the talking heads constantly being in attack dog mode. It's absurd.

I'll leave everyone with this:
Proverbs 24:17-18 "Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice, or the LORD will see and disaprove and turn his wrath away from him."

Pluralism is not a set of beliefs

As I've stated proudly before, I'm a Christian. This post isn't about me bringing you over to my side. This is a post about the proliferation of the idea that everyone's ideas can be correct. Our society is becoming more and more accepting of the "fact" that there are several truths out there.

The pluralistic idea is pure absurdity. Truth is truth. It is or it isn't. Are there questions in life? Absolutely. Are there areas of life that we won't know the answers to until we meet our maker? Of course. The idea that everyone's ideas about life's truths are correct just doesn't hold water. If everyone is correct in their search for truth, then who's wrong?

Grow up America. There is a right and a wrong. I'm tired of having to apologize for that. Do I believe that Christ is the way, the truth, and the life? ABSOLUTELY. Am I closed minded enough not to listen to other opinions? NO. Faith closes the gaps when the facts aren't there or just don't make sense.

I'm sure there are those that will think I'm close minded for stating this opinion. I truly welcome your comments in order to have an interesting conversation.