Incomprehensible without Jesus,
Ernest Renan, French historian, religious scholar and linguist said,
“All history is incomprehensible without Christ.”
More things have been written about Jesus Christ than perhaps any other person in history. Today his followers number close to three billion people and that number is growing. Yet Jesus never ruled a nation on this earth. He never raised a sword in anger. Quite the opposite he called his followers to Love God, their neighbour and even their enemy.
Johns Gospel records,
“The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
I and the Father are one.”
Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” John 10:24-32.
Jesus here equates himself to God, a crime punishable by death in his day. Yet it was a claim he never backed away from.
Jesus speaking to Martha said,
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
“Yes Lord” she told Him, “I believe you are the Christ the Son of God, who was to come into the world,” John 11:25,26,27.
Martha answered a question we all must answer, Who do you believe Jesus is,
C. S. Lewis points out,
“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.
Thus the question you dear reader must answer is “Who do you believe Jesus is?”
Before you answer that question directly, at least take some time to read the New Testament and see what His followers believe him to be.
Let the word of those who believe Jesus is the Son of God, the Saviour of Mankind speak to you. Then decide for yourself who Jesus is.
Please think about it.
Ernest Renan, French historian, religious scholar and linguist said,
“All history is incomprehensible without Christ.”
More things have been written about Jesus Christ than perhaps any other person in history. Today his followers number close to three billion people and that number is growing. Yet Jesus never ruled a nation on this earth. He never raised a sword in anger. Quite the opposite he called his followers to Love God, their neighbour and even their enemy.
Johns Gospel records,
“The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
I and the Father are one.”
Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” John 10:24-32.
Jesus here equates himself to God, a crime punishable by death in his day. Yet it was a claim he never backed away from.
Jesus speaking to Martha said,
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
“Yes Lord” she told Him, “I believe you are the Christ the Son of God, who was to come into the world,” John 11:25,26,27.
Martha answered a question we all must answer, Who do you believe Jesus is,
C. S. Lewis points out,
“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.
Thus the question you dear reader must answer is “Who do you believe Jesus is?”
Before you answer that question directly, at least take some time to read the New Testament and see what His followers believe him to be.
Let the word of those who believe Jesus is the Son of God, the Saviour of Mankind speak to you. Then decide for yourself who Jesus is.
Please think about it.
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