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>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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