I am going to discuss in this teaching, who is this Jesus? Who is this person that Christians everywhere revere as God, Himself, as the Messiah, the one who is faithful and true? Is He the Son of God, or just a good man and teacher? Is He a prophet who spoke of being free in the kingdom of God? Or is He more than that? C.S. Lewis, the British author of The Chronicles of Narnia amongst other books, said this,
"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 a 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."

The French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, said, "I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him."

Throughout history people from all over the world have proclaimed that Jesus had to be more than mere man. Even those who did not follow Him believed this. Albert Einstein was a well-known physicist, mathmetician and proclaimed atheist, however, he said, "As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life." Even as an atheist, Einstein had to admit that Christ could be no myth. Napoleon said that Christ could not be a mere man, but that He had to be something more than man.

In the next few weeks, I am going to be examining who Christ has been proclaimed to be throughout history in the Old Testament, in the New Testament & more recent history. Who Christ claimed to be with His own words. So, please, revisit these pages every week as I will try to show who this Jesus is. Thank you for visiting and taking time to read these articles.

Part 2 - What The Prophets Said