Jesus is God or He isn’t. Lunatic, liar or Lord: you choose. If you really want to know the truth about God, it is not intellectually wise to ignore the life and teachings of the only major religious leader in all of history who actually claimed to be God. Jesus is far too important a figure to pass over lightly. He did live, and He stands alone in the claims He made and in the life He lived. Jesus produced anger, hatred, or worship from the people of His day. His enemies clearly understood His claim of divinity. They tried to kill Him for blasphemy because He claimed equality and oneness with God [See: John 5:18; 8:58-59; 10:33, and Mark 14:61-64]. All of the main writers of the New Testament , such as Paul and the apostle John, clearly taught the deity of Jesus [e.g., John 1:1,14; Romans 9:5; Philippians 2:6,7; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 1:1, 8]. This is even more staggering when we realize that those saying, “ Jesus is Lord [ God ],”
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