Is Jesus God

Is deliveryman God? Have you ever met a man who is the center of attention wherever he goes? Some mysterious, indefinable characteristic sets him apart(predicate) from in all former(a) men. Well, thats the way it was two thousand years ago with Jesus Christ. But it wasnt merely Jesus personality that captivated those who heard him. Those who witnessed his words and intent tell us that something about Jesus of Nazareth was different from all other men. Jesus only credentials were himself. He never wrote a book, commanded an rmy, held a political office, or owned property.He mostly traveled within a hundred miles of his village, attracting crowds who were amazed at his provocative words and stunning deeds. Yet Jesus greatness was obvious to all those who saw and heard him. And while most great people eventually fade into history books, Jesus is still the focus of thousands of books and unparalleled media rock. And much of that controversy revolves around the radical claims Jesus m ade about himselfclaims that astounded both his followers and his adversaries.It was primarily Jesus unique claims that caused him to be viewed as a threat by both the Roman authorities and the Jewish hierarchy. Although he was an outsider with no credentials or political powerbase, within three years, Jesus changed the world for the coterminous 20 centuries. Other moral and religious leaders find left an impact but nothing like that unknown carpenters son from Nazareth. What was it about Jesus Christ that made the difference? Was he merely a great man, or something more? These questions get to the heart of who Jesus really was.Some deliberate he was merely a great moral teacher others believe he was simply the leader of the worlds greatest religion. But many believe something far more. Christians believe that God has actually visited us in merciful form. And they believe the evidence backs that up. After carefully examining Jesus life and words, former Cambridge professor and s keptic, C. S. Lewis, came to a startling closedown about him that altered the course of his life. So who is the real Jesus? Many will answer that Jesus was a great moral teacher.As we take a deeper look at the worlds most controversial person, we begin by asking could Jesus have been merely a great moral teacher? keen Moral Teacher? Even those from other religions acknowledge that Jesus was a great moral teacher. Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi, spoke highly of Jesus righteous life and heavy(a) words. l Likewise, Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner wrote, It is universally admitted that Christ taught the purest and sublimest ethics which throws the moral precepts and maxims of the wisest men of antiquity far into the shade. 2 JesusSermon on the Mount has been called the most superlative teaching of human ethics ever uttered by an individual. In fact, much of what we know today as equal rights actually is the result of Jesus teaching. Historian Will Durant, a non-Christian, said of Jesus that he lived and struggled unremittingly for equal rights in modern times he would have been sent to Siberia. He that is greatest among you, let him be your Gandhi, have tried to separate Jesus teaching on ethics from his claims about himself, believing that he was simply a great man who taught lofty moral principles.This was the move up of one of Americas Founding Fathers, President Thomas Jefferson, who cut and pasted a copy of the New Testament, removing sections he thought referred to Jesus deity, while leaving in other passages regarding Jesus ethical and moral teaching. 4 Jefferson carried around his cut and pasted New Testament with him, revering Jesus as perhaps the greatest moral teacher of all time. In fact, Jeffersons memorable words in the Declaration of Independence were rooted in Jesus teaching that