| Subject: Chapter 3: The Shocking Alternative |
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Date Posted: 10:06:17 11/07/07 Wed
Chapter 3 touches on a couple of "biggies" in Christianity. I will save the issue of human free will for chapter 5. But I would like to have some conversation with you on the deity of Christ issue.
"I am trying here to prevent anyone from 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.'" (p.52)
Okay, you have probably all had this lecture/sermon from your Sunday school teachers/preachers: "So, since Jesus said that He is God, He was either telling the truth, which means that He IS God, or telling a lie, which means He is either a lunatic (not knowing that He was telling a lie), or a evil liar (knowingly telling a lie like that). Now, right here today you'll have to make a choice of whom you think Jesus is!" Well, if one is a believer, that lecture probably strengthens his/her faith -- "Yeah, Jesus is not a liar nor a lunatic, which means that He is God and I can entrust my life to Him." But if one is a non-believer, the lecture may push him/her into a reactive, defensive, anti-gospel stance -- "Okay, then I suppose Jesus WAS either a liar or a lunatic. So spare me from your evangelizing!"
How would it ever be possible for a Christian to communicate the truth about Jesus to non-believers, without sending them further away from knowing Christ?
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