Jesus God The Son
“The Christian faith has not been tried and found wanting. It has rather been found difficult and left untried.” (G.K. Chesterton)
The story of Jesus is either the greatest event in history or the cruelest hoax. If it is a hoax, then the whole of the Christian message crumbles together with the hopes of those multitudes of lives built on his name. The apostle Paul said:
“And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up; if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.” (1 Corinthians 15:14-19).
There is a lot of controversy today regarding the identity of Jesus Christ. If you were to randomly ask people in a survey who they think he is, you would get a variety of responses. Some might say he is a great prophet who stands equal to Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, and others. Some give him credit for being a profound moral teacher. Still others might say he was a loving, but weak person who happened to get killed for a noble, but lost, cause.
So who is Jesus? Is He anything like the above claims? Or is He who the Christian faith claims Him to be - the Son of God? Before we can justify this answer, we need to first explore the evidence surrounding this case. Jesus Christ claimed to be God, the Creator of the universe, the one and only way by which we can enter into Heaven - these are high claims!
“And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” (1 John 5:11-12)
God the Son has always existed and...
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