ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 74

ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY

PART 74



(copied fromMark Cahill's Book)

Remember that from the outset, the search in
 this book has been for truth. Knowing the
 truth and  living by that truth will always set 
you free.

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed
on Him, 'if you continue in My Word, then are
 ye My disciples indeed: And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." 
 (John 8: 31-32)

Buddha said at the end of his life; " I don't even know if there is a God, I am still searching for
the truth."

The Koran, written many years after 
Mohammed's death, quotes Mohammed as saying: "I am in need of forgiveness."

But listen to what Jesus says:

"I am the way, the truth and the life, no man
cometh to the Father, but by Me."
(John 14:6)

At this point when Jesus says He is the only way 
to heaven, we have a dilemma. We have to decide
Who and what Jesus really is:  a lunatic, a liar, or
The Lord. Let us look at this.

If He is lying and doesn't know that He is lying, then He would be a lunatic. He would be out 
of His mind. It is not every day that someone claims to be God and the only way to heaven. 
If you make a statement like that, you had better be able to back it up.

  Did this man who had    such an impact on 
  2,000 years of history,    behave like someone      who is crazy?  Could     this man Who's birth                                   
 split history into  B.C. and A.D.  actually have      been crazy? 

But if He is lying and He knows He is lying, He would then be the greatest deceiver the world 
has ever seen - telling people He was the only 
way to heaven when He was not.

Jesus' sayings permeate society to this day and 
they have the ring of truth to most people. His 
enemies could not find any sin in Him. He had a
spotless character.

Can someone whose words are the greatest moral
teachings the world has ever known, and whose
words and deeds have had the greatest impact on
this world - could that man, at the same time,  have been a liar about himself, God, and where humanity would spend eternity?

We see that it makes no sense to think that Jesus
was a lunatic, and it makes no sense to think that
 He was a liar. That leaves only one option.  He
was telling the truth and He knew that He was
telling the truth. That makes Him God, manifested
in a human body, as prophesied  in the Bible. 

Scholar C.S. Lewis wrote:  "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 on 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."


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