The Jews understood Jesus’ statement as a claim to be God. They tried to stone Him “for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God” (John 10:33). However, look at the Jews’ reaction to His statement. Jesus said in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.” At first glance, this might not seem to be a claim to be God. So, who did Jesus claim to be? Who does the Bible say He is? First, He is God in the flesh. He did not intend to” (Macmillan, 1952, p. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. 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. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of hell. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity writes the following: “I am trying here to prevent anyone from 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.
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