A Case of Blasphemy

A case of blasphemy
“A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.  
So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.  
Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.  
Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.  
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 
Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,  
“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 
Mark 2:1-7
This is an astounding thing for Jesus to do. He not only healed a man but he claimed to forgive sins an action that carried the death penalty. Mark noting what the teachers of the law were saying,
“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
The Law they were referring to comes from Leviticus. It states,
“anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.” 
          Leviticus 24:16
Why would Jesus risk death and the potential end of his ministry by committing a crime worthy of capital punishment.
C.S. Lewis writes,
“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 patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 
                                                                                                          C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
The only conclusion one can make from the way Jesus presented himself is that he truly is the Son of God. God in the flesh.
Think about it.