Notes on Jesus

Notes on Jesus
Flavius Josephus (34A.D.- 98A.D.) became a Pharisee at 19, was also the commander of Jewish forces in Galilee. He later became Romanized and wrote a history of the Jewish people for the Romans.
Josephus wrote,
“About this time arose Jesus, a wise man, who did good deeds and whose virtues were recognized. And many Jews and people of other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. However, those who became his disciples preached his doctrine. They related that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive. Perhaps he was the Messiah in connection with whom the prophets foretold wonders.” [Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, XVIII 3.2]
Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor from (361A.D-363 A.D.) said to be one of the most ardent ancient adversaries to Christianity. In his work against Christianity wrote,
“Jesus…has now been celebrated about three hundred years having done nothing in his lifetime worthy of fame, unless anyone thinks it is a very great work to heal lame and blind people and exorcise demoniacs in the villages of Bethsaida and Bethany.”
At the end of his life was forced to say:
“Thou has conquered, O Galilean!”
Today there are people around the world who claim Jesus didn’t even exist. There are others who claimed he was simply a good man. That’s their opinion and they have the right to it. I as a Christian believe otherwise.
C. S. Lewis wrote of Jesus
“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
To those who would think differently than I do about Christ. I would suggest that you buy or go to the library and borrow a copy of Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis and read it for yourself.
Then ask yourself, What do you think of Christ.
Please think about it.