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To: mugs99; .30Carbine

"Inspiration. As a Deist, I see Jesus as a great teacher. I believe all men, Atheists included, can benefit from His teaching."

Jesus claimed to be God. Either the claims of Jesus Christ are true or they are false. If false Jesus Christ is either a liar or a lunatic, if true Jesus Christ is Lord.

In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis makes this statement, "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 a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool 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."

434 posted on 10/10/2006 10:33:04 AM PDT by FreedomProtector

To: FreedomProtector

Jesus claimed to be God. Either the claims of Jesus Christ are true or they are false.

See post #437

439 posted on 10/10/2006 10:53:30 AM PDT by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)

To: FreedomProtector

451 posted on 10/10/2006 6:51:23 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)

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