Who is Jesus?
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Useful links Alpha Course
A popular course exploring key issues relating to the Christian faith Bible Gateway
Read what the Bible has to say about Jesus (try one of the four gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke
or John - for starters). ReJesus
Investigating the person of Jesus Christ himself
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Liar, lunatic or Lord  In Mere Christianity, CS Lewis wrote: '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 a 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.'
Like all Christians, Salvationists follow Jesus Christ. They believe that in the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth - a Jew who lived in Palestine around 2000 years ago - God revealed himself and acted in history for humankind. This is summed up in The Salvation Army's statement of belief: We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the divine and human natures are united, so that he is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.  Salvationists believe that God was fully present in the life of Jesus, and that through Jesus, God can lead us to eternal life. In the Bible, Jesus himself said:
'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.' (John 14:6 New International Version)
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