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Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Witnessing to Witnesses [Part 4]
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Witnessing to Witnesses [Part 3]
Sunday, June 01, 2014
Did Jesus Really Ever Claim to be God?
“Jesus was a good moral teacher. Sure, he had a special relationship with God and thought he was doing God’s work, but he never claimed to actually BE God. The idea that Jesus is God is something his disciples made up after his death”.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Did Christ’s Disciples Concoct the Myth that He is God?
“I think,” someone once told me earnestly, “that Jesus’ teachings were good, but he was just an ordinary man. After he died, his followers invented the story about the resurrection and started talking as if he were God. They meant well, of course — they were only trying to gain more support for their new religion. But if Jesus had known that they’d made a god out of him, he would have been shocked.”
Many people like the idea of acknowledging Jesus as a great moral teacher, but they don’t want to recognize him as God. So they suggest that all his claims to deity in the gospels were added by over-zealous followers after his death. This hypothesis may be convenient to those who wish to pick and choose among Christ’s teachings, but is it true? Is it even logical?