Discussion: Why Jesus?
Consider the following quote from Lewis (1952)
I am trying here to prevent anyone 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 patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to (p. 52).
The answer the following questions in your initial post:
- As we looked at the life of Jesus, what is your understanding of the purpose of Jesus’ life, ministry, death, and resurrection?
- Was it just to show us how to be good people, or was there more?
- Why do we say that Jesus is the message of the Bible?
- How have you thought of Jesus in the past, and how do you understand him now?
In answering these questions, draw from your reading assignments in the Bible and our textbook
Lewis, C.S. (1952). Mere Christianity. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
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