There's no room for fence-sitting on the question of Jesus. It's as simple as this:
1. If Jesus spoke the truth, then He was/is the Son of the Living God of Abraham, Yaweh. The Messiah.
2. If Jesus was not the Son of the Living God (not to mention, God himself), then He was the greatest charlatan of all history, a man of deception, cunning, and evil.
There's no room in between. Those who say, "Jesus was a benevolent preacher" are flat out wrong. Either He was who He said He was, or He was Satan incarnate.
You are the classic example why I avoid the religious threads like the plague!
Juvenile circular reasoning reigns supreme. Ah... ignorance.
2. If Jesus was not the Son of the Living God (not to mention, God himself), then He was the greatest charlatan of all history, a man of deception, cunning, and evil.
How would it imply that The Christ Himself was “the greatest charlatan of all history, a man of deception, cunning, and evil”? From everything I have read, he was generally a kind and considerate personage. Is He responsible for the actions of those who came later?