Was Jesus a good man and nothing
more? I believe the Bible, the book that
tells his story, can answer that for us. All
we need to do is examine Jesus' own
claims not what others said about him,
but what he said about himself. Jesus claimed equality with God. In John
5:17-18, Jesus equated his own work
with that of the Father. He professed to
be something more than a man: "You
are from beneath, I am from above. You
are of this world; I am not of this world" (John 8:23). In fact, Jesus even
claimed to be God. During a discussion
about the heritage of Abraham, he
remarked, "Most assuredly, I say to you,
before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:58).
His opponents surely recognized "I AM" as the name by which God identified
himself when he sent Moses to Egypt
(Exod. 3:14). On another occasion Jesus
said, "I and the Father are one" (John
10:30). If he was just a man, then his
words were nothing short of blasphemy!
Jesus claimed power to forgive sins. In
front of a large crowd, he said to a
paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven
you" (Lk. 5:20). Jesus wasn't pardoning
this fellow for some personal offense; he was pronouncing forgiveness for all
the man's transgressions against God.
This angered the Jewish leaders, who
knew that no one but God himself could
forgive sins (v. 21). Jesus' statement
would have been laugh-able, had it not been so serious.
Jesus claimed to be the path to
salvation. In contrast to many religious
philosophers, Jesus bluntly said that
only he could bring people into a right
relationship with God. He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through
Me" (John 14:6). He claimed to be the
sole source of truth in the world: "I am
the light of the world. He who follows
Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life" (John 8:12). Very
arrogant statements for a mere man!
Jesus claimed sinlessness. He asked his
enemies, "Which of you convicts me of
sin?" (John 8:46) Jesus professed to
have no moral defect. For any ordinary man to do so would be impossible; to
say so would be openly hypocritical.
Jesus claimed to be the Christ. God's
prophets had promised Israel a
deliverer, his "anointed one." The Jews
called him "Messiah." Jesus said, "I who speak to you am he" (John 4:26). Many
people who heard Jesus believed that
he was the prophesied Savior. His
closest disciples believed it. When he
asked them who they thought he was,
Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matt. 16:16).
Jesus blessed him for saying so. If Jesus
was not the Messiah, then he played
falsely on the dreams of an entire
nation.
Jesus claimed to be atonement for sin. Jesus said that when he died his life
would be "a ransom for many" (Matt.
20:28), and his blood would be shed for
many for the re-mission of sins (Matt.
26:28). He declared that his death
would be the sacrifice before God that would make possible the forgiveness of
all men's sins. Imagine a man saying
that his life could atone for the wrongs
of the whole world! Surely such a man
would be a fanatic. Yet Jesus not only
said it, but apparently believed it himself, because He willingly died for
his claim.

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