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In
these troubling, sometimes confusing times we live in, you might be wondering
how to find true hope, happiness, peace…true love.
Many
are looking for answers in all the wrong places. Others look to the person of
Jesus Christ (Yeshua), yet are confused because in numerous books (The DaVinci
Code, the Gospel ccording To Judas, etc.), movies and T.V. programs (The Search
for Jesus, The Science Of The Bible, The Last Temptation Of Christ) Jesus is
portrayed as something very different from the actual biblical Son of God.
It's
easy to form our own opinions of Him if we get our information from these
sources. We give some credibility and some
respect perhaps to the person of Jesus Christ, but we still don't follow
his teachings and honor . Him to the extent of allowing Him to be in
control of our very lives. It is our belief at NOAH'S ARK DISTRIBUTION,
INC. that truth is absolute. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6).Is He the Son Of God, the Creator of the universe,
the one that came to earthto die
for us, the forgiver of sins, the only way to get to Heaven?Do we
really have to deal with this, or can we just sort of let the whole idea
slide by?Either
Jesus is 100% who he said He is, or He was a liar or a lunatic. It's well
summed up in a passage from C.S. Lewis' MERE CHRISTIANITY:
…Among
the Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if
He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always
existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us
get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he
was a part of God, or one with God: there could be nothing very odd about it.
But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in
their language, meant the Being outside the world, who had made it and was
infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you
will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing
that has ever been uttered by human lips.
One
part of the claim tends to slip past us unnoticed because we have heard it so
often that we no longer see what it amounts to. I mean the claim to forgive
sins: any sins.Now unless the speaker is God, this is really
so preposterous as to become comic. We can all understand how a man forgives
offences against himself. You tread on my toes and I forgive you, you steal my
money and I forgive you. But what should we make of a man…who announced that he
forgave you for treading on other men's toes and stealing other men's money?
Asinine fatuity is the kindest description we should give of this conduct. Yet
this is what Jesus did. He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never
waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured.
He unhesitatingly behaved as if He were the party chiefly…offended in all
offences….In the mouth of any speaker who is not God, these words would imply
what I can only regard as silliness and conceit unrivaled by any other
character inhistory.
Yet,
and this is the strange, significant thing) even His enemies, when they read
the Gospels, do not usually get the impression of silliness or conceit… Christ
says that He 'is humble and meek' and we believe Him, not noticing that, if He
were merely a man, humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we
could attribute to some of His sayings. I am trying here to prevent anyone from
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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
The
line is drawn in the sand.
Check
out if the claims of Christ are true.
Pick
up that Bible-all the answers are there. (We suggest to start reading the
Gospel of John.) Another book that's a good one is by a law journalist, Lee
Strobel called THE CASE FOR CHRIST.
God
bless you!
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